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Season of Migration to the North ( ) is a classic post-colonial Sudanese novel by the novelist Tayeb Salih. Originally published in Arabic in 1966, it has since been translated into more than twenty languages.Johnson-Davies, Memories In Translation: Read More..

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Description	Season of Migration to the North ( ) is a classic post-colonial Sudanese novel by the novelist Tayeb Salih. Originally published in Arabic in 1966, it has since been translated into more than twenty languages.Johnson-Davies, Memories In Translation: A Life Between The Lines Of Arabic Literature, p 85 Salih was fluent in both English and Arabic, but significantly chose to pen this novel in Arabic. The English translation was published in 1969 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel is a counternarrative to Heart of Darkness. It was described by Edward Said as one of the ten great novels in Arabic literature. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.
Description	Season of Migration to the North ( ) is a classic post-colonial Sudanese novel by the novelist Tayeb Salih. Originally published in Arabic in 1966, it has since been translated into more than twenty languages.Johnson-Davies, Memories In Translation: A Life Between The Lines Of Arabic Literature, p 85 Salih was fluent in both English and Arabic, but significantly chose to pen this novel in Arabic. The English translation was published in 1969 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel is a counternarrative to Heart of Darkness. It was described by Edward Said as one of the ten great novels in Arabic literature. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.

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Name	Season of Migration to the North
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Authors	Tayeb Salih
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Translator	Denys Johnson-Davis
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Language	Arabic
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Country	Sudan
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Pages	169 pp (Heinemann edition)
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Media_type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
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Isbn	0-435-90630-5
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Publisher	Tayeb Salih
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Pub_date	1966
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Release_date	1966
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