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“tayeb salih”

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  • Season of Migration to the North

    by Tayeb Salih ...
    The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North, is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds.When a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger - the enigmatic Mustafa Sa''eed. As the two become friends, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)

    by Tayeb Salih ...
    After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling ... Read more

    $16.58 CAD

  • Mansi

    A Rare Man in His Own Way

    by Tayeb Salih ...
    Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif Bastawrous, sometimes known as Michael Joseph and sometimes as Ahmed Mansi Yousif. Playing Hardy to Salih's Laurel Mansi takes centre stage among ... Read more

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life ... Read more

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    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

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    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. ... Read more

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  • Woman at Point Zero

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  • Pilgrims Way

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  • Breaking the Mirror of Heaven

    The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt

    by Robert Bauval, Ahmed Osman ...
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  • Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows

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