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.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes for Fictionġ904. 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.The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction.The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.”-Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review
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