Tayeb Salih
Books by Tayeb Salih
“It’s a novel about the clash of cultures, the intermixture of cultures. It’s a novel about what happens to a man, or two men, when they leave their village and go north, to England, the land where the fish die of cold, and get a western education, and some of the dangers of that. It’s a very strange and very complex novel” Read more...
Interviews where books by Tayeb Salih were recommended
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The Blind Owl
by Sadegh Hedayat and Naveed Noori (translator) -
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Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih -
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Leg over Leg
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and Humphrey Davies (translator) -
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Drifting Cities: A Trilogy
by Strates Tsirkas and Kay Cicellis (translator) -
5
The Arabian Nights or Tales of 1001 Nights
Mathias Enard on The ‘Orient’ and Orientalism
Mathias Enard on The ‘Orient’ and Orientalism
Study of the ‘Orient’ and Orientalism has evolved considerably since Edward Said's seminal study of 1978. Here, the multi-award winning French novelist Mathias Enard, whose own novel, Compass, draws on this rich history, discusses five books that capture key aspects of this ever-shifting terrain
