The Old Drift

by Namwali Serpell

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    Fiction

    Paperback

    9781784703998

    Published by Vintage Publishing

    Published March 2020

    Books > Fiction

    ‘Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling’ SALMAN RUSHDIE

    On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift.

    In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles his fate with those of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy.

    So begins a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond.

    ‘Brilliant . . . heartbreaking’ Sunday Times

    ‘Electric . . . Serpell is a major talent’ Financial Times

    ‘A novel that satisfies on all levels’ Alice Sebold

    ‘Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking’ Carmen Maria Machado

    Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020
    Longlisted for the Debut Crown Historical Writers Association Award 2019
    Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019

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