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  Season of Migration to the North (Paperback) By (author) Tayeb Salih, Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

  

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  Short Description for Season of Migration to the NorthThe 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 30 October 2003
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: General | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780141187204 ISBN 10: 0141187204
  • Sales rank: 52,694

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Full description for Season of Migration to the North

• '"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".