Season of Migration to the North

An "Arabian Nights" in reverse, enclosing a moral about international misconceptions and delusions. This is the story of a student who returns to his village after his obsession with the West had led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East.

Author: 
Salih, Tayeb
Title: 
Season of Migration to the North
Publisher: 
Penguin Books Ltd.
Place of Publication: 
Sudan
Date: 
2003
Subject Area: 
Fiction
Original Language: 
Arabic
Translator: 
Denys Johnson-Davies
ISBN: 
0-14-118720-4
Description: 

An "Arabian Nights" in reverse, enclosing a moral about international misconceptions and delusions. This is the story of a student who returns to his village after his obsession with the West had led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East.