Season of Migration to the North: '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...' The Wedding of Zein: '...both charming and original, making of the marriage of a village buffoon and a sought-after girl in a Sudanese village on the banks of the Nile, an abundant symbol of a world that lies by change yet can only be interpreted by reference to tradition.' --Robert Nye, Guardian
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Tayeb Salih was born in 1929 in the Northern Province of Sudan but has lived most of his life outside Sudan. He went to University in England before working at the BBC as Head of Drama in the Arabic Service and for UNESCO in Paris and Qatar.
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Arabic
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 263pp. Book age-worn but pages tight and whole, apart from flyleaf page, which is loose. Pages tanned and foxed around edges, card cover also significantly tanned and marked, spine cracked. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Two novels by the masterly Sudanese writer who died early in 2009, aged 80. Both deal with tradition and life on the edge of change, as well as the impact of and fascination with the West, and its mirror fascination with the East. Seller Inventory # 001208
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