When Al-Tayeb Salih emerged upon the literary scene in the early 1970s, he was received with an unprecedented aura. Salih's emergence in the literary life was, by itself, an unusual occurrence, simply because he was not introduced by an ideological or political movement that seeks to make of him its voice like what happened with Boris Pasternak when he published his novel Doctor Zhivago. Salih was also not one of the writers the reader was accustomed to see on newspaper and magazine pages. Equally, he was not that quantitative writer.
With these sound words that resonate with celebration, starts literary critic Dr. Yousif Noor Awad in his book entitled "Al-Tayeb Salih Novels From A Structural Analysis Perspective."
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