The Old Drift

Beschreibung

**Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020**<BR><BR> 'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater<BR> <BR> 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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> 'Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' Salman Rushdie<BR><BR> 'Brilliant . . . heartbreaking' Sunday Times<BR> <BR> 'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

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