Tayeb Salih writes simply, yet is able to incorporate much description into the text. It is an interesting story about how one man can have great impact over another. Mustafa Sa'eed is a foreigner in the small village newar the bend in the Nile. When the protagonsit returns home, he finds it odd thatsuch a man resides in his village, and approaches him. Sa'eed tells him his story, and it never leaves. I found it strange that Mustafa had 'killed' all the women he had ever been with, and it left me wondering how he killed them, and whether it was intentional or not.
"...and those men who had migrated came back; the land returned to its former state..."[48]
- I was drawn to this line, as it seemed to speak of something that is ingrained into all the people who leave. When people migrate away, and the land is left to perish, the absence of people leaves the land barren and lonely, and it begins to die. However, when the people come back to their home land, the land begins to be nourished back into existence. The culture is no longer fading, but being re-supported.
There are a few themes to the novel, some of which I found were a sort of perverse sexuality, death (by hanging), and what seems or is real. The concept that life is a lie comes up, and seems to foreshadow some event that will occur near the end of the novel.
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