The novel charts individuation of the un-named narrator (in one instance he is referred to as "Effendi," but this is an Arabic title of respect, roughly equivalent to "Sir" in English). This man has returned to his native village in the Sudan having spent seven years in England furthering his education.
On his arrival home, he encounters a new villager ("Mustafa Sa'eed") who exhibits none of the adulation for his achievements that most others do, and displays an antagonistically aloof nature. The villager betrays his past one drunken evening by wistfully reciting poetry in fluent English, leaving the narrator resolute to discover the stranger's identity. As it turns out Mustafa was also a precocious student educated in the west but simultaneously harbors a violently hateful and complex relationship with his western identity and acquaintances. The story of Mustafa's troubled past in Europe and in particular his love affair with a British woman, forms the center of the novel. What the narrator then discovers about the stranger, Mustafa Sa'eed, awakens in him great curiosity, despair and anger, as Mustafa emerges as his doppelgänger. The stories of Mustafa's past life in England, and the repercussions on the village around him, take a toll on the narrator, who is driven to the very edge of sanity. It is only finally, floating in the river Nile, precariously between life and death, that the narrator makes the conscious choice to rid himself of Mustafa's lingering presence, and to stand as an influential individual in his own right.
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评分看了一開頭兒還挺喜歡的。Said說的後殖民主義寫得最好的六本小說之一。小說！小說阿！不解釋阿！安慰了我溫暖了我有沒有！哭...小说永远讲最真实的人
评分虽然是一本翻译自阿拉伯语的英文小说，却极其适合作为英语学习的进阶读物。文字平静优美，同时又有一种很独特的非洲气息
评分虽然是一本翻译自阿拉伯语的英文小说，却极其适合作为英语学习的进阶读物。文字平静优美，同时又有一种很独特的非洲气息
评分虽然是一本翻译自阿拉伯语的英文小说，却极其适合作为英语学习的进阶读物。文字平静优美，同时又有一种很独特的非洲气息
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