A tale of folklore and murder, set in the SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Seasons of Migration to the North
Location(s): The Sudan
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Mid 20th Century
‘SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.’ Observer
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