Season of Migration to the North

Name: Season of Migration to the North
Author: Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih · 1966

Salih inverts Heart of Darkness: a Sudanese man educated in Britain returns home, carrying the violence of colonialism inside him. The Arab Literary Academy named it the most important Arabic novel of the 20th century. Compact and devastating, it is among the great novels about the psychic damage of empire.

The case against

on the women
“They were pawns in his sick game of conquering and dominating women.”
a book blog
on the narration
“flipping back to confirm who was speaking.”
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on the characters
“important information about the characters and their past is left out”
Marina Harss · Words Without Borders, 2007
on female characters
“this doesn’t cancel out the absence of characterisation.”
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