The moral? To err is human.In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. The tale? A playful panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction.
Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The Old Drift is an endlessly innovative, voraciously brilliant book' Garth GreenwellOn the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift.
Electrifying, playful, ambitious, brilliant – a Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time'It’s difficult to think of another novel that is at once so sweepingly ambitious and so intricately patterned, delivering the pleasures of saga and poetry in equal measure.
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