I wished while reading this that I was reading it to teach or as part of a class, because I want to analyze it to shreds. It is a stop frequently and say hmmm book, and an excellent work of Arabic fiction- and there isn't much of it that I can find, relatively speaking, as most of it is not translated. An unnamed narrator returns home to Sudan after being educated in the West and befriends another man who has returned from England. The intro makes connections between Othello and Heart of Darkness which are there but are not dominant- it is a book that can be read in a number of ways, and one that could easily be revisited.