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Written by Tayeb Salih, the novel ‘Season of Migration to the North' as described by The Observer "is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions." The novel is set both in England and the Sudan, showing the stark social differences within these two locations. In this essay, I will evaluate the reasons supporting and opposing Mahjoub's statement as defined in ‘Season of Migration to the North'.

In the first line of the novel (and once more later in the book: "dear sirs" page 62), the narrator introduces the reader to a male-dominated world by suggesting his audience is masculine;

"It was, gentlemen, after a long absence—seven years, to be exact, during which time I was studying in Europe—that I returned to my people."

Despite the subtlety of the word "gentlemen", this, I believe is purposefully done, to immediately show the reader the extent to which village life is dominated entirely by the male. Its subtlety......

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