The narrator recalls seeing Mustafa among the crowd. Mustafa bought a farm and married Mahmoud’s daughter, but he keeps to himself and no one knows much about him. His father explains that the man is Mustafa Sa’eed, a stranger who moved to Wad Hamid five years ago. While having tea with his parents the morning after his return, the narrator recalls an unfamiliar, middle-aged man who stood silently in the crowd that welcomed the narrator back. However, the sound of turtledoves cooing and the wind in the palm trees calms him, and he is reassured that “all was still well with life” (4). Having become accustomed to the people and climate of Great Britain, the narrator at first feels uncomfortable after returning to the village. After seven years of studying in Europe, the unnamed narrator has returned to his hometown, Wad Hamid, a small village near the Nile in Sudan.
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