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Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
by Tayeb Salih
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Salih's shocking and beautiful novel reveals much about the people on each side of a cultural divide. A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where
Season of Migration to the North: A Novel Tayeb Salih
Although he was poor and fatherless, the headmaster of his school arranged for him to attend secondary school in Cairo, where his schools headmaster, MrThe Narrator later asks Mustafa about his past, and Mustafa tells the Narrator much of his story, often saying "I am no Othello, Othello was a lie," as well as "I am a lie."Show More He meets a variety of people in Khartoum, many of whom knew or heard of Mustafa Sa'eedHosna adamantly rejects it, saying that she will never remarry, and if she is forced to, she will kill the husband and then herselfHer work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhereIn the end, this passivity plays an indispensable role in the fulfillment of Mustafa Sa'eed's dark destiny, the violent dnouement of this novel in which sexual violence is the at times gruesome, excessive metaphor for the clash between colonizers and the cultures they dominate, shape, and ultimately destroyIn January 1899, a compendium, or joint-authority, was established to rule over Sudan by Britain and Egypt.[5] Sudan gained independence in 1956, but was then engulfed in two prolonged civil wars for much of the remainder of the 20th century.[6] This novel is set in the 1960s, a significant and tumultuous time in Sudan's history
Words Without BordersToday the novel is readily available in Sudan.[2]All of the relationships end in tragedyJohnson-Davies, Denys, Memories In Translation: A Life Between The Lines Of Arabic Literature, American University in Cairo Press, 2006, ISBN9774249380Salih writes in an introduction to the 2003 Penguin edition that "the general climate in Khartoum in those days was exhilaratingHosna is married to Wad Rayyes against her will, but when he attempts to consummate the marriage, she kills him first and then proceeds to killing herselfISBN0-435-90630-5 Season of Migration to the North, 1969 Heinemann ISBN0-935576-29-0 Season of Migration to the North (hardcover), 1989 MIn the final chapter, the Narrator is floating in the Nile, precariously between life and death, and resolves to rid himself of Mustafa's lingering presence, and to stand as an influential individual in his own right
The unnamed narrator returns to his hometown, Wad Hamid, a small village near the Nile in northern Sudan, after studying in British poetry in London for seven yearsHe associated mainly with left-wing bohemians, although he secretly resented their silly misconceptions about "Oriental" cultureMahjoub laughs off the dilemma, saying that the narrator cannot change the social order of Wad Hamid, and Wad Rayyes will probably die soon anywayHe remains preoccupied with Mustafa's story for the next 25 yearsexpensive silk rippling on their shoulders like the fur of Siamese cats." But his knowingness is no excuse for his passivity, and its consequencesRobinson MrHe was imprisoned for seven years, and left England upon being released to live a simple farm life in SudanNow I am making a decision." It is unclear whether this decision has come too late, and whether it will be the right oneMore important, writers from the other side of the colonial divide have come to prominence in recent decades through their own, perhaps more contested, portrayals
Other editions - View allSlih, Al-Tayyib Season of Migration to the Northal-aiyib LI,Denys Johnson-DaviesNo preview available - 1970Journal of Arabic LiteratureThe subject matter is interesting: the story of this crisis of someone returning from life in the West." –The Christian Science Monitor"This book was given to me some time ago by a librarian who had to replace her fiction shelves with an information centreMany of the novel's character, such as Mahjoub and the Narrator, recur in these other works as wellThe Narrator becomes fascinated by Mustafa, and learns that Mustafa was also a precocious student educated in the West but that he held a violent, hateful and complex relationship with his western identity and acquaintancesThe narrator is ambivalent about this, but as he leaves Mahjoub, he realizes that he is in love with Hosna
Rather, it is alive with drama and incident: crimes of passion, sadomasochism, suicide.Swift and astonishing in its prose, this novel is more instructive than any number of academic books." –The New York Times“A modern Arabic classic." –Reuters“Denys Johnson-Davies.the leading Arabic-English translator of our time." –Edward Said, The Independent“Davies has done more than anybody to translate modern Arabic fiction into English and promote it." –Nagib Mahfouz From the Publisher One of the classic themes followed in this complex novel, translated from the Arabic, is cultural dissonance between East and West, particularly the experience of a returned nativeBakri won the award for best actor in the 1993 Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli TheatreShe assumes that Hosna finally agreed to have sex with him and screamed in orgasmIt's a very short novel and a number of people had recommended it to me based on what I had writtenThe marriage was tense and Hosna refused to consummate it, much to her new husband's frustrationHe swims toward the shore and begins to call for help.First published in Arabic in 1966, and in English in 1969 by Heinemann's African Writers Series, it was much acclaimed but did not gain as wide a readership in English as it deserved." –The Guardian"Inevitably, Aboulela has been compared to Tayeb Salih, whose brutal novel Season of Migration to the North is considered a classic among postcolonial texts and covers the same geographical distance as Minaret (Salih's fiction has been widely translated from Arabic; Aboulela writes in English.)" –The Daily Star (Beirut)"The prose, translated from Arabic, has a grave beauty 064a88f820
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