Season of Migration to the North

Author(s): Tayeb Salih

General Fiction

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.


Product Information

Tayeb Salih was born in 1929 in the Northern Province of Sudan but has lived most of his life outside Sudan. He went to University in England before working at the BBC as Head of Drama in the Arabic Service and for UNESCO in Paris and Qatar.

General Fields

  • : 9780141187204
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : October 2003
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tayeb Salih
  • : Paperback