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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Paperback, 2003)
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East meets West in this powerfully-written fiction about a Sudanese student returning home from his life in London. Salih is regarded as one of the greatest living Arabic writers. Tayeb Salih was born in Northern Sudan in 1929 and educated at the University of Khartoum. After a brief period working as a teacher, he moved to London to work with the BBC Arabic Service. Salih later worked as Director-General of Information in Qatar in the Arabian Gulf; with Unesco in Paris and an Unesco's representative in the Arab Gulf States. Tayeb Salih is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Arab writers of the 20th century, he died in 2009.