The Old Drift av Namwali Serpell

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