This novel's narrator lights the candles in an ornate library full of English books and photographs dedicated to "slave girls" after realizing he loved a widow who commits suicide after murdering the unfaithful man that she is forced to remarry, in order to care for her two sons.
This novel's narrator lights the candles in an ornate library full of English books and photographs dedicated to "slave girls" after realizing he loved a widow who commits suicide after murdering the unfaithful man that she is forced to remarry, in order to care for her two sons. The protagonist of this novel reveals his past after drunkenly reciting Ford Madox Ford's "Antwerp" to the narrator, who earned a Ph.D. in English poetry. Female genital mutilation is debated by the hard-drinking 70-year-old multiple- divorcée (*) Bint Mazjoub and the promiscuous Wad Rayyes in this novel, whose narrator claims he is "no Othello" during his murder trial. In this novel, an economist drives British women to suicide by seducing them with Orientalist lies, before killing his wife Jean Morris. For 10 points, name this novel in which a British-educated Arab is driven mad by the story of Mustafa Sa'eed after returning to Sudan, a work by Tayeb Salih.
This novel's narrator lights the candles in an ornate library full of English books and photographs dedicated to "slave girls" after realizing he loved a widow who commits suicide after murdering the unfaithful man that she is forced to remarry, in order to care for her two sons.
Season of Migration to the North [or Mawsim al-Hiǧra ilā ash-Shamāl]