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This book was one of the group reads for the Goodreads group "The World's Literature." It is also a book for me to check off Sudan from my dwindling list of African countries I still need to read a book from.
Originally published in Arabic in 1966 and translated into English in 1969, the narrator of this novel has recently returned to the village of his upbringing, after being educated in Cairo and London. His re-entry into his old life isn't completely seamless, and there is one man living ther ...more
Originally published in Arabic in 1966 and translated into English in 1969, the narrator of this novel has recently returned to the village of his upbringing, after being educated in Cairo and London. His re-entry into his old life isn't completely seamless, and there is one man living ther ...more
Mar 28, 2014
Dioni
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1001-books,
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First published at: http://www.meexia.com/bookie/2016/03/...
Season of Migration to the North is a post-colonial book by Tayeb Salih, a Sudanese writer. The book is first published in Arabic in 1966, and translated to English in 1969. My edition is the NYRB classics with introduction by Laila Lalami (who's born and raised in Morocco) and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
Sudan became independent from the United Kingdom and Egypt in 1956, and these two countries comes up again and again in the bo ...more
Season of Migration to the North is a post-colonial book by Tayeb Salih, a Sudanese writer. The book is first published in Arabic in 1966, and translated to English in 1969. My edition is the NYRB classics with introduction by Laila Lalami (who's born and raised in Morocco) and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
Sudan became independent from the United Kingdom and Egypt in 1956, and these two countries comes up again and again in the bo ...more
Jun 06, 2014
Beth
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it was amazing
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summer-read-with-ferris
Rating: 4.5 star
See my notes and quotes at: http: https://bibliophilebethlc.blogspot.com ...more
See my notes and quotes at: http: https://bibliophilebethlc.blogspot.com ...more
Apr 07, 2008
Ching-In
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fiction,
in-translation
Mar 26, 2011
Marieke
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2011,
arab-world,
saturday-shortstack,
fiction,
africa,
united-kingdom,
north-africa,
mena-lit,
europe,
egypt
Feb 23, 2016
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
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to-read-interloan-sd
May 25, 2022
Agustina
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ºafrican-literatureº,
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