Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih builds to a howling crescendo

builds to a howling crescendo of social despair

’ In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories

Translator: Beth Cary and Frederik L

On a quiet corner in an old wooden building

in East Berlin

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih builds to a howling crescendoWhen 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