Season of Migration to the North

Posted on 09 December 2017 by Tayeb Salih

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood the enigmatic Mustafa Sa eed Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.But what is the meaning of Mustafa s shocking confession Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man whom he has asked to look after his wife in an unsettled and violent no man s land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century. Read Season of Migration to the North By Tayeb Salih – kino-fada.fr ,,, , , , ,,, , , , , , , ,, , . , , , 20093.7533.753 100 100 A while ago I was in heated conversation with a man, a British man, upon the subject of immigration and asylum, and at the end of this conversation he said something like obviously coming here is better for you lot It became clear to me at that point that he was under the impression that I wasn t English It is better for me and my kind Better in what way, sir Nicer, not like where you came from Putting aside the insignificant detail that I am actually English, the suggestion was that up A while ago I was in heated conversation with a man, a British man, upon the subject of immigration and asylum, and at the end of this conversation he said something like obviously coming here is better for you lot It became clear to me at that point that he was under the impression that I wasn t English It is better for me and my kind Better in what way, sir Nicer, not like where you came from Putting aside the insignificant detail that I am actually English, the suggestion was that uprooting yourself and...A powerful and unusual contrast of carnality and pastoralism Not two key themes you might often find in your common or garden novel but this book is neither common nor domestic A powerful description of the life and death of the mysterious Mustafa Sa eed who despite being an outsider to the village he currently inhabits and seemingly little known in the area, has wielded a great and mysterious skill women kill themselves for the love of him Mustafa Sa eed journeyed north to England as a sc A powerful and unusual contrast of carnality and pastoralism Not two key themes you might often find in your common or garden novel but this book is neither com...

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09 December 2017

Tayeb Salih