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Title: Season of Migration to the NorthAuthor: Tayeb Salih, Denys Johnson-Davies (translator)
Published: 166
Language: English (translated from Arabic)
Pages: 192
Rating: 2/5
Summary:
A young man returns to his village in Sudan after being educated abroad and becomes friends with a new face in the village; a man who has a troubling past.
Review:
I don't have a whole lot to say about this book. I was quite excited to read it, but I'm afraid it wasn't quite for me.
The writing in this is beautiful and the only reason I've given this two stars instead of one. The story started off pretty well with the first thirty or so pages, but the rest was wholly uninteresting to me. I wasn't particularly invested in any of the characters and honestly felt a little bored by the whole thing.
I feel like this might be a better book to study in school, as I'm aware it's a commentary on colonisation and the history of Sudan and I'm sure it's fantastic when you understand all of that, but as just an average reader, I didn't really feel like I got a whole lot from this.
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