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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 him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut what is the meaning of Mustafa's shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man--whom he has asked to look after his wife--in an unsettled and violent no-man's-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeason of Migration to the North\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. 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