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The author of "Season of Migration to the North" is a brilliant student who has gone astray and become obsessed with the West. He kills women in London who are obsessed with the East, and the West destroys him. This powerful and poetic book is beautifully translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
'"Season of Migration to the North" is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies' - "Observer".
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