Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih Translator: Beth Cary and Frederik

Translator: Beth Cary and Frederik L

Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum

giving it life

’ In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih Translator: Beth Cary and FrederikWhen a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. As the two become friends, Mustafa tells the younger man the disturbing story of his own life in London after the First World War. Lionised by society and desired by women as an exotic novelty, Mustafa was driven to take brutal revenge on the decadent West and was, in