false 669780 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 669780 14 382533 1 1 1970 Season of Migration to the North (African Writers) total:661|5:246|4:238|3:129|2:33|1:15| 661 2650 991 102 70692 3.98 718 106 4911530 298366 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.02 525 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 4 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Aug 21 19:51:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 06:24:38 -0800 2009 3470708 217489 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 3 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...]]> 49610090 1384976 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 3 1 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...]]> 44844988 1899585 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 1 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...]]> 20869636 41201 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 3 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 48182999 126539 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 4 0 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...]]> 62479497 1017488 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 3 6 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...]]> 58676605 2390093 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 0 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...]]> 64409402 2246876 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 0 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...]]> 61977438 1457001 6145869 1590173023 9781590173022 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6145869.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 3.92 13 Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, 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 in the early part of the twentieth century, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.

But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man —whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.
One of the pinnacles of modern Arabic literature, Season of Migration to the North is a work of scorching honesty and incandescent lyricism.]]> 1970 5 1 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...]]> 22065845 1156041 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 3 1 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...]]> 61483039 175916 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 3 0 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...]]> 54673582 2278190 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 0 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...]]> 80140521 1883858 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 0 false Sun Dec 06 22:09:57 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 22:16:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77813712 2406744 6145869 1590173023 9781590173022 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6145869.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, 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 in the early part of the twentieth century, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.

But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man —whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.
One of the pinnacles of modern Arabic literature, Season of Migration to the North is a work of scorching honesty and incandescent lyricism.]]> 1970 3 0 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...]]> 39419130 1584650 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 1 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 53189791 1104480 6145869 1590173023 9781590173022 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6145869.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, 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 in the early part of the twentieth century, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.

But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man —whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.
One of the pinnacles of modern Arabic literature, Season of Migration to the North is a work of scorching honesty and incandescent lyricism.]]> 1970 4 0 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...]]> 58681537 1634922 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 3 0 false Sat Jun 06 15:58:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 16:29:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 41425881 137418 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 0 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...]]> 4450355 235153 669780 0435900668 9780435900663 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112m/669780.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176956112s/669780.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North 4.01 661 Arabian Nights 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. - The Observer beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.]]> 1970 5 0 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...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=669780