**Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020**
'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater
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.
'Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' Salman Rushdie
'Brilliant . . . heartbreaking' Sunday Times
'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
| ISBN: | 9781784703998 |
| Publication date: | 19th March 2020 |
| Author: | Namwali Serpell |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 566 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Ancient Sagas and epics Narrative theme: Sense of place Historical romance Historical Fiction Science Fiction |
**Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020**
'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater
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.
'Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' Salman Rushdie
'Brilliant . . . heartbreaking' Sunday Times
'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
The Old Drift features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Ancient Sagas and epics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical romance, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction
The Old Drift is available in Paperback
The Old Drift was written by Namwali Serpell and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
The Old Drift has 566 pages
£9.89