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The Old Drift

By Namwali Serpell

The Old Drift Contemporary literature

The Old Drift

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From the winner of the Caine Prize comes the Great Zambian novel you didn't know you were waiting for Namwali Serpell's ground-shaking debut novel is an epic story of three generations of three Zambian families - one black, one brown and one white. Unfolding over 200 years, but set mainly in the twentieth century, one family begins in Italy, another in England and the third in Zambia. The three families' lives become entwined as each is plagued by a curse passed on down the generations. Hugely ambitious, each of the three 'books' that make up the novel - The Grandmothers, The Mothers, The Children - engages with a different genre of writing, satirizing the kind of language historically used to describe Africa, whilst celebrating the diversity and hybridity of African culture. Playful, full of humour and utterly captivating in its storytelling - this is a colossal novel that you can live in. Sprawling out across time and space, it recalls One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, animating a culture that cannot escape its colonial past, but which yearns for greatness.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
576
Release Date:
2019-03-21
Publication Date:
2019-03-21
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781090505
ISBN13:
9781781090503
Weight:
700 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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