Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih On a quiet corner in

On a quiet corner in an old wooden building

Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum

Translator: Beth Cary and Frederik L

where conversations are dominated by the prospect of war

When the shy and passionate Tatyana falls in love with him

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih On a quiet corner inWhen 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