In short, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind.
Namwali Serpell writes about people, land, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision, there's an old wisdom in these pages. " -Carmen Maria Machado "An astonishing novel, a riot for the senses, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. " -The Wall Street Journal "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." -NPRĪdvance praise for THE OLD DRIFT "In turns charming, heartbreaking, and breathtaking, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious, genre-busting, multigenerational saga with moxie for days. though in its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times " A founding epic in the vein of Virgil's Aeneid. Praise for The Old Drift "An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic. From 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. As the generations pass, their lives-their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes-emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. 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. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M.
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. "- The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - Tordotcom - Kirkus Reviews - Book4. "A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage."-Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - " Clear-eyed, energetic and richly entertaining.
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