RIP Tayeb Salih

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The death last week of the great Sudanese novelist, Tayeb Salih, went largely without comment in this country, subsumed perhaps in stimulus news and the flotsam of daily life. Those searching for a novel about the modern Arab world (or just a great novel) should buy his brilliant Season of Migration to the North, or The Wedding of Zein. According to Laila Lalami, NYRB Classics is re-releasing Season of Migration to the North in April, so it shouldn’t be hard to find.

A moment of silence, and a few remembrances:

• The New York Times
• The Guardian
• BBC News
• Laila Lalami

A creative writer, gastronaut, and armchair orientalist, Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, and an NEA Fellow in Creative Writing. He lives in Oakland, CA, and just finished a novel about the end of the Ottoman Empire.