Season of Migration to the North

Written by Tayeb Salih
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Introduction by Laila Lalami

Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $14.00

After many years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of... Read more >

The Wedding of Zein

Written by Tayeb Salih
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Introduction by Hisham Matar

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $14.00

The Wedding of Zein unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in... Read more >

The Wedding of Zein

Written by Tayeb Salih
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Introduction by Hisham Matar

Format: eBook, 144 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $14.00

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