{"product_id":"season-of-migration-to-the-north-9780141187204","title":"Season of Migration to the North","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis was Mom's idea, not mine. But if she thinks I'm going to write down my \"feelings\" in here or whatever, she's crazy. The only reason I agreed to do this at all is because I figure later on when I'm rich and famous, this book is gonna come in handy. But for now I'm stuck with a bunch of morons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE ONE WHERE IT ALL BEGINS!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book in the global phenomenon from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney - 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Let me get something straight: this is a JOURNAL not a diary... The other thing I want to clear up right away is that this was MOM's idea, not mine.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThings aren't going well for Greg Heffley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe's been thrust into a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with his friend Rowley, Greg's desperate to prove his new maturity, which only going up a grade can bring. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, will Greg be able to reach the same heights of popularity as his best friend?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHAT'S IN DIARY OF A WIMPY KID?\u003cbr\u003e50% words, 50% cartoons, 100% hilarious!\u003cbr\u003eStories that all readers can't wait to get their hands on\u003cbr\u003eLaughter guaranteed!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*BRAND NEW* DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE DEEP END IS OUT NOW!\u003cbr\u003eAnd DON'T MISS an all-new fantasy from Greg's best friend in Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure, the follow-up to the instant #1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave you read all the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series?\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Overlode\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlease note: front cover may vary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780141187204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 05 Dec 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 20(H)x12.9(L)x1.3(W)146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 146\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eTayeb Salih was born in Northern Sudan in 1929 and educated at the University of Khartoum. After a brief period working as a teacher, he moved to London to work with the BBC Arabic Service. Salih later worked as Director-General of Information in Qatar in the Arabian Gulf; with Unesco in Paris and an Unesco's representative in the Arab Gulf States. Tayeb Salih is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Arab writers of the 20th century, he died in 2009.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eWithout a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translation does the original justice -- Hisham Matar\u003cbr\u003eThis depthless, elusive classic explores not just the corrosive psychological colonisation observed by Frantz Fanon, but a more complex two-way orientalism, in which the charms of western thought, embodied in its poetry and liberal ideals, prove irresistible, even as the novel's Sudanese narrators understand these as the tempting fruit of a poisoned tree * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eSalih packed an entire library into this slim masterpiece ... It is alive with drama and incident: crimes of passion, sadomasochism, suicide. It is a novel of ideas wrapped in the veils of romance * Harper's Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the one novel that everyone insisted I took with me. Set in a Sudanese village by the Nile, it is a brilliant exploration of African encounters with the West, and the corrupting power of colonialism. I never got this book out to read without someone coming up to tell me how brilliant it was -- Mary Beard\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights \u003c\/i\u003ein reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions...Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eThe prose, translated from Arabic, has a grave beauty. It's the story of a man who returns to his native Sudan after being educated in England, then encounters the first Sudanese to get an English education. The near-formal elegance in the writing contrasts with the sly anti-colonial world view of the book, and this makes it even more interesting -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003cbr\u003eDenys Johnson-Davies...the leading Arabic-English translator of our time -- Edward Said","brand":"Tayeb Salih","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48506080723161,"sku":"9780141187204","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780141187204.jpg?v=1775742397","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/season-of-migration-to-the-north-9780141187204","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}