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The Old Drift

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The Old Drift

Auteur(s): Namwali Serpell
Narrateur(s): Adjoa Andoh, Richard E. Grant, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
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 “A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.”—Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Atlantic • BuzzFeed • Tordotcom • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage

WINNER: The Arthur C. Clarke Award • The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award • The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction • The Windham-Campbell Prizes for Fiction

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. 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 the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. 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. As the generations pass, their lives—their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes—emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction.

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.

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . 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 . . . 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.”—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.”—NPR Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature mondiale Science-fiction Afrique
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I am worried about the author. I worry that she had never experienced a healthy relationship in her life. None of the massive cast of characters ever experience a healthy relationship. you would think that with all of these people, someone would have found happiness, but that is not the case.

I am also disturbed by the lack of queer people in this story. there are some very natural points for bisexuals to exist in, but the author veers hard away from that in ways that are very noticeable if you are a fan of queer literature.

To round out further issues, there is almost no showing, everything is telling. All the moralizing of Jane Austen, without any of the clever dialogue or subtle hints at the real character of the people. also, yet again, no love, no one experiences passion or joy. Lust is the most happy emotion ever shown in the text and I honestly hate it.

No Joy, No Passion, No love. Why does this exist?

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