The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

The Old Drift
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 March 2020
Pages
576
ISBN
9781784703998

The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 2020

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.   

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