false 669780 14 An <i>Arabian Nights</i> in reverse; the brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsessed 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. - <i>The Observer</i> beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan. 382533 1 1 1970 Season of Migration to the North (African Writers) total:648|5:244|4:229|3:128|2:33|1:14| 648 2600 967 102 5 3 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 24 14:46:56 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 01 16:58:40 -0700 2008 4
What I can tell you: its very readable; its a page turner; it sits in the gap between prose and poetry; its about the relationship between desire. I think this is a meditation on the nature of ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 18:16:21 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 15:02:24 -0700 2009
A story of the Sudan and of London academia, of the conflicts between East and West, between colony ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 07:27:40 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 07:29:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 06:51:01 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 06:55:17 -0700 2008 5 4 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Aug 21 19:51:30 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 08 10:26:58 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 21:18:01 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 12:54:02 -0800 2009
The book is something that Hitchcock might have made into a movie had he l...more...]]> 3 6 false false Tue Jul 07 09:48:57 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 09:55:24 -0700 2009
I'm not quibbling with your choice. I don't know enough Arab literature to quibble. I'm appalled by how little Arab literature has been translated into Englis...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:55:29 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:57:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:51:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 14:32:00 -0700 2009 The narrator has returned to his Sudanese village after living abroad for seven years. He sees an unfamiliar face among his neigbors and kinsmen and learns that the stranger's name is Mu...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 20:37:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 20:54:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:29:49 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:36:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 05:35:59 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 08:46:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 01:58:52 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 02:17:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 21:00:34 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 21:00:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Dec 05 20:57:39 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 20:59:01 -0800 2008 3 4 0 false false Sun May 31 07:00:04 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 20:45:27 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 07:00:04 -0700 2009 Season of Migration to the North is about the universal striving for something better. Unfortunately when the journey takes you out of your own culture, the price is very high.

There are 2 main characters in the book. The first is the narrator, a nameless young Sudanese man who has re...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 15:58:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 16:29:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 12:35:29 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 30 07:23:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 12 18:46:27 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 25 18:34:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 18:44:46 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 17:31:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6145869