{"product_id":"9781784703998","title":"The Old Drift","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Serpell, Namwali\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eZambia\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 19 March 2020 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 576 pages\u003cbr\u003e200 x 138 x 37 | 452g\u003cp\u003e**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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' Salman Rushdie 'Brilliant . . . heartbreaking' Sunday Times  'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Serpell, Namwali","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465792426168,"sku":"9781784703998","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784703998.jpg?v=1734713922","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784703998","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}