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Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih,

Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator)

Start date: July 1, 2016

Finish date: July 31, 2016

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Jun 29, 2016 Kristel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: africa, 1001-books, 1001-challenge, sudan

The story is set in the 1960s and is told my a young man who has returned to his village on the Nile in Sudan. Back home, he sees a stranger who is not familiar to him, Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa has also spent years in London and is a brilliant young man. While in London this man has a series of affairs with European woman, all who are in love with exotic young man from Africa. It is a tale of the violence when two cultures collide. A story of not fitting in the past and not yet ready for future. ...more

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Aug 08, 2018 Dree rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-read, africa, england-uk-ireland, in-translation, 2018-reads

I enjoyed the first half of this book quite a lot. Two men, of different generations, living in the same Sudanese town. Each has traveled and spent time in England for education and work. Each has returned to Sudan--the elder came to this town, bought a farm, married, has children. The younger has returned to his hometown and is as yet unmarried. They returned for different reasons.

The second half begins to get odd, the last 30 pages or so are weird and weirder. I am sure this is somehow a discu ...more

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Jun 02, 2015 Janet rated it liked it

The prose is lovely. The setting is interesting. The characters are full of promise and poised to live fruitful lives. The self centered, decadent, and destructive paths that the narrator and Mustafa follow make the reading quite tiresome after a while.

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Sep 05, 2010 Diane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 20th-century, 1001-done, 1001, around-the-world-2009-2012, africa, nyrb, african-writers-series, guardian-top-100, tour-d-afrique, translated