Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)

by Laila Lalami (Introduction), Laila Lalami (Introduction), Tayeb Salih (Author), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $15.79

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $11.81

  ' Season of Migration to the North is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies' - Observer .