Season of Migration to the North

A postcolonial masterpiece exploring the psychic aftershocks of empire through one man’s haunting confession.

A Sudanese narrator returns to his village after studying in England and meets a mysterious stranger, Mustafa Sa’eed, whose past becomes a metaphor for colonial seduction and violence.

Salih’s novel reverses the colonial gaze, telling a story of cultural encounter with unsettling power. An essential work of Arabic literature.