After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of "Season of
Migration to the North" returns to his village along the Nile in
the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution
to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he
discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood--the
enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his
confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of
his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught
and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible
public reckoning and his return to his native land.
But what is the meaning of Mustafa's shocking confession? Mustafa
disappears without explanation, leaving the young man--whom he has
asked to look after his wife--in an unsettled and violent
no-man's-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation,
holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will
escape unaltered or unharmed.
"Season of Migration to the North" is a rich and sensual work of
deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by
a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab
novel of the twentieth century.
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