AWS Classics Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann African Writers Series: Classics) - Softcover

Salih, Tayeb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435913530 ISBN 13: 9780435913533

Publisher: Heinemann, 2008

Synopsis

'Season of Migration to the North is among the six finest novels to be written in modern Arabic literature'

- Edward Said, Professor of English Literature, Columbia University

About this title

Review:

"An 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

About the Author:

Tayeb Salih (1929-2009) was born in northern Sudan in 1929 and educated at the University of Khartoum. After a brief period working as a teacher, he moved to London to work with the BBC Arabic Service. Salih later worked as director general of information in Qatar in the Arabian Gulf, and then with unesco in Paris and the Arab Gulf States. Along with Season of Migration to the North, his books in English include The Wedding of Zein (which will be published as an

NYRB Classic) and Bandarshah.

Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. Her debut collection of short stories, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was published in the fall of 2005, and her first novel, Secret Son, was published in the spring of 2009. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside.

Denys Johnson-Davies(1922-2017)published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0435913530
• ISBN 13: 9780435913533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152