Books by Tayeb Salih

The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him.

This affectionate memoir by Tayeb Salih of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi shows, with humour, wit, and 20th-century personalities centre stage, another side to the great author, renowned for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. "A flavourful and entertaining memoir" - Boyd Tonkin