Season of Migration to the North
Original title: Mawsim al-hijrah ilá al-shamāl
first published 1969 Heinemann Educational, 1969 169 pages
African writers series — book 66
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator 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 brilli...
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