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Season of Migration
to the North A NOVEL
Tayeb Salih,
translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
“A beautifully constructed novel by an author whose reputation in
Arabic is deservedly vast.” —LONDON TRIBUNE
“An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international
misconceptions and delusions.” —THE OBSERVER
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 he has affairs with women who are similarly obsessed with
the mysterious East. Life, ecstasy, and death share the same
moment in time. Now considered a classic, the work was first published
in Arabic in 1969.
Tayeb Salih was born in 1929 in the Northern Province of
Sudan. He has served as head of drama in the B.B.C.’s Arabic Service
and director-general of information for the state of Qatar.
1980/169 pages
ISBN: 0-89410-199-4 pb $13.95
U.S. and Canada only
The Wedding of Zein
and Other Stories
Tayeb Salih, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
and illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi
“This book ... has timelessness and universality ... humanity and abundant
humor in all hues ... insights and worldliness and awareness.”
—LONDON TRIBUNE
Acclaimed in both its English translation and its original Arabic
version, the title work in this collection has been made into a film,
and a second piece, “A Handful of Dates,” is among the most
anthologized of modern short stories.
1985/120 pages
ISBN: 0-89410-201-X pb $13.50
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