Old Drift

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-03-19
Mått138 x 200 x 37 mm
Vikt518 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor576
FörlagVintage Publishing
ISBN9781784703998
UtmärkelserLong-listed for HWA Crowns 2019 (UK)

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Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. She has received a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction, the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review and one of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her nonfiction book, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her short story, 'Take It', was a finalist for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. She is a Professor of English at Harvard.