{"product_id":"the-old-drift-1","title":"The Old Drift","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.\"--Salman Rushdie, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times - The New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eTordotcom \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER: The Arthur C. Clarke Award - The \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eArt Seidenbaum Award - The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction - The Windham-Campbell Prizes for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. 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 the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives--their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes--emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines, this gripping, unforgettable novel is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders, and a meditation on the slow, grand passage of time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eRay Bradbury Prize - Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade.\"\u003cb\u003e--Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eA founding epic in the vein of Virgil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid . . . \u003c\/i\u003ethough\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A story that intertwines strangers into families, which we'll follow for a century, magic into everyday moments, and the story of a nation, Zambia.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942039978215,"sku":"9781101907153","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_801b46fe-0bcf-4915-94e9-f29e0f2a0630.jpg?v=1775244205","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-old-drift-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}