“我们才刚开始热爱生活，却不得不对这一切开炮。” 《悉达多》《人类群星闪耀时》译者、翻译家姜乙新译作，1929年德语原版直译。 6000字译后记，特别收录雷马克未经发表手稿。 青年保罗·博伊默尔、钳工加登、始终随身带着课本的米勒、头脑最清醒的下士克罗普、挖煤工海尔·维斯胡斯、农民德特林，以及斯坦尼斯劳斯·卡钦斯基们，经过十周的军事训练后，被送往前线。1918年，这个班的最后一人也于前线阵亡。而军队指挥部战报上的记录仅有一句：西线无战事。

本书根据当事人的口述．以及大量档案、会议纪录和口述史料，真实地再现了俞平伯、沈从文、丁玲、老舍，赵树理、郭小川、汪曾祺、浩然等作家在一九四九年后的遭际和故事，以及他们的心路历程，让读者了解到那些尘封的如烟往事。 作者以一种极大的善意敬意写这些离我们不远的作家们，不溢美也不隐恶，不粉饰也不歪曲。于是，读者就可以从本书中发现许多生动鲜活的、却也是强大而可畏的真实，进而可以揣想，有哪些真实可能是被有意无意地删略了?

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land. But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed. Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.