Season of Migration to the North : A Novel

from VivalaErin

Read this for a Postcolonial literature class and absolutely loved it. The characters are excellent and deep. The depth of Arab-African culture and the interaction with the English was a new thing for me, and I really enjoyed the interplay between the two. Mustafa Sa'eed is a great character, and...

from VivalaErin

Read this for a Postcolonial literature class and absolutely loved it. The characters are excellent and deep. The depth of Arab-African culture and the interaction with the English was a new thing for me, and I really enjoyed the interplay between the two. Mustafa Sa'eed is a great character, and...

from Kristelh

The story is set in the 1960s and is told my a young man who has returned to his village on the Nile in Sudan. Back home, he sees a stranger who is not familiar to him, Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa has also spent years in London and is a brilliant young man. While in London this man had a series of af...

from FicusFan

A Season of Migration to the North is about the universal striving for something better. Unfortunately when the journey takes you out of your own culture, the price is very high. There are 2 main characters in the book. The first is the narrator, a nameless young Sudanese man who has returned to ...

from hemlokgang

This novel started out slowly and gradually became mind boggling!  The author manages to convey the downside of colonialization and one culture being sdueced by the exotic in anither culture, and then killing off the original beauty of what seduced them in the first place.  I was entranced by man...