Season of Migration to the North
- ISBN-10
- 0894101994
- ISBN-13
- 9780894101991
- Category
- Fiction / General
- Pages
- 169
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Three Continents Press
- Author
- al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Description
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.--Cover.
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