Sudan · Literature
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih · 1966
Mustafa Sa'eed returns from London to a Nile village carrying a violence that his apparent success cannot metabolize, occupying the exact narrative position as Omar: the educated Arab whose triumph in the colonial vocabulary becomes a private catastrophe. Salih, like Mahfouz, locates the post-independence wound in the silent men who ought to be celebrated.