Title: Season of Migration to the North

Author: Tayeb Salih (Sudanese)

Translator: Zhang Jiamin

Publisher: Sino-Culture Press

Edition: 1st Edition, May 2017

Format: Soft - bound Hardcover, 16 - mo

Printed Sheets: 14.25

Word Count: 150,000 words

ISBN: 9787507546798

Price: 38.00 CNY

Season of Migration to the North: The story is about an unnamed young man from a Sudanese village. Losing his father at a young age, he lives with his mother. In school, with his extraordinary memory, he quickly stands out and is successively sent to Cairo and London for further studies. At the age of 24, he obtains a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford and stays there as a lecturer in economics. However, this talented young man becomes dissolute in a life of debauchery, causing the deaths of several women successively, and is sentenced to seven years in prison. After his release, he wanders around, finally returns to Sudan, settles down in a remote village in the north, gets married, has two children, lives a comfortable life, and does some good deeds for the villagers. But due to a slip - of - the - tongue after drinking, when he recites an English poem and is forced to tell his life story, in the season when the Nile floods that year, he commits suicide by jumping into the river, ending his life.

Zein's Wedding: The story unfolds around Zein, a stunted and simple - minded rural youth. Zein wanders around the village all day long. Whenever he sees a beautiful girl, he falls in love at first sight and then publicizes his love for her everywhere. In that conservative village, once a girl is shouted about by him, her reputation spreads far and wide, attracting local gentry, celebrities, or amorous young men to come and propose marriage, and they take her away. At this time, Zein indifferently looks for a new target and starts a new round of love stories. Year after year, he "spreads love" and constantly allows others to reap the fruits of his love. But finally, with his honesty and kindness, he wins the love of his cousin Neama.

Tayeb Salih is the most famous realist writer in Sudan. He was born in 1921 into a small - farmer family of the Shayqiya tribe in northern Sudan. After graduating from high school, he entered Gordon College (renamed the University of Khartoum after Sudan's independence) and then transferred to the University of Oxford. After graduation, he worked as a middle - school teacher in Sudan for several years, and then joined the BBC in the UK, serving as the director of its Arabic department for a long time. In recent years, he has been working in the Qatar Ministry of Information. In addition to Zein's Wedding and Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih's main works also include the novella The Light of the Home and the short - story collection The Palms of Wad Hamid. His works are generally set in the rural areas of northern Sudan, with a strong local flavor. They objectively reflect the social situation in Sudan, are highly regarded by Sudanese and Arab readers, and have also received attention from many other countries.

Zhang Jiamin, a professor at Peking University, was born in 1935. He graduated from the Arabic major of Peking University in 1960 and taught at the university for 40 years. He also studied or taught in Iraq, Sudan, and Egypt successively. He served as a director of the African Research Center of Peking University, a member of the Foreign Language Textbook Compilation and Review Committee of the State Education Commission of China, and the vice - president of the Teaching Research Association. His main works include Basic Arabic Course and Teaching Syllabus for Advanced Arabic in Chinese Higher Education Institutions (the first editor), A Reader of Chinese Culture (Arabic version), and Chinese - Arabic Dictionary (participated in compilation and presided over revision).

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