The month of June, in addition to hosting BEA, also kicks off Reading the World. As part of this project, the NBCC has asked writers around the globe to recommend a book from beyond these shores. Here is what Booker finalist Hisham Matar says is worth grabbing and bringing home with you:
“Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man’s exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translation, published by Penguin Modern Classics, does the original justice.”
Hisham Matar