{"product_id":"books-the-old-drift-by-namwali-serpell","title":"The Old Drift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of \u003ci\u003eRosewater\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Brilliant . . . heartbreaking' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53768262156561,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781784703998.jpg?v=1783943576","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-old-drift-by-namwali-serpell","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}