Tayeb salih quotes of the day

Tayeb Salih (12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO.

Quotes

Season of Migration to the North (1966)

• It was a steamingly hot July night, the Nile that year having experienced one of those floodings that occur once every twenty or thirty years and become legendary - something for fathers to talk to their sons about.

• But I would hope you will not entertain the idea, dear sirs, that Mustafa Sa'eed had become an obsession that was ever with me in my comings and goings.

  Tayeb salih quotes of the day in urdu

  Sometimes months would pass without his crossing my mind. In any case, he had died, by drowning or by suicide - God alone knows.

  • Chapter 4, pg. 61
  • The living cannot dwell on each person that dies and try to figure out why.

• It is a chaotic house, built without method, and has acquired its present form over many years: many differently-sized rooms, some built