The Old Drift is an extraordinary meditation on identity, the history of a nation, love, politics, family, friendship and life. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Carmen Maria Machado In turn charming, heartbreaking, and breathtaking, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. 'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Read more 'Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' Salman Rushdie 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. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles his fate with those of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. 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. 'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn’t know you were waiting for and the launch of a thrilling new talent
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