"Season of Migration to the North" Top 5 Page for this destination Sudan Packing List Tip by mafi_moya

Miscellaneous: Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is far and away the most famous Sudanese book, although you won't find many copies on general sale in Khartoum as the explicit sexual content didn't go down too well with government censors.

The book deals with differences between Africa and the West, looking at the very different lifestyles of the main character (drawn partly from the experiences of the author) at home in a small Sudanese village on the Nile and away in England studying at Oxford University, particularly in terms of sexual relations.

This is regarded as a classic of Arabic literature not just Sudanese, in which case I think it’s a bit overrated and disappointingly simple. But it’s a good entertaining story and without a doubt the book that foreigners read when coming to the country.