Tayeb Salih

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

aṭ-Ṭaiyib Ṣāliḥ

An arresting work by a major Arab novelist.

Season of Migration to the North

The wedding of Zein

Mukhtārāt

A beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan and Europe. 'Among the six finest novels to be written in modern Arabic literature.' Edward Said

al-Tayyib Sālih

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Sindiwe Magona

Charles Mungoshi

Ousmane Sembène

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

Tololwa Marti Mollel

Dambudzo Marechera

I. N. C. Aniebo

Henri Lopes

Luís Bernardo Honwana

Olympe Bhêly-Quénum

Ken Lipenga

Bloke Modisane

William Saidi

Nnadozie Inyama

Mohammed Abderrahmane Berrada

Ali Deb

Mohammed Moulessehoul

An anthology of twenty-five short stories by the very best emerging and award-winning contemporary African writers illuminates modern-day concerns and realities of African life and features the writing of Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, and others. Original.

Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience

African Rhapsody

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad Yiddī al-Nūr

An Ideo-literary Evaluation

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North

Mansi: a Rare Man in His Own Way

This long-awaited new book by the acclaimed Sudanese author Tayeb Salih is an evocative masterpiece. Consisting of two volumes originally entitled Dau al-Beit and Meryoud, it tells the story of a green-eyed stranger who, wounded and hungry, appears on the banks of the river near the village of Wad Hamid, this work recounts the life of a man who cannot remember his name, race, nor religion, and speaks a language no one understands. The villagers take him in, teach him the Koran, and give him a name, Dau al-Beit. Restored to strength, Dau al-Beit transforms the lives of the people who cared for him, invigorating them with his ideas and enriching them with the merchandise he trades and the crops he harvests. Marrying a village girl, he remains in Wad Hamid for five years until he is lost to the river he came from. His son is later given the nickname Bandarshah. The continuing narrative revolves around the part-mythical figure of Bandarshah, his eleven sons, and his grandson Meryoud. As readers, we become the amazed spectators of village politics, initiation ceremonies, weddings, floggings and burials - scenes peopled with a cast of genies, devils, and houris - and encounter the mysticism of the Arab world described in a prose so absorbing and fascinating that we want to return to read it again and again.

Bandarshah

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

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