How long does it take to read Season of Migration to the North?
Tayeb Salih, Denys Johnson Davies
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Denys Johnson Davies takes about 3 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 169 pages, about 46,475 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. 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.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Modern fiction, Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Unassigned Title, African
