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I'm in awe. This book has everything - it's historical fiction but it's also about a dystopian future. It has non-fiction (history of Zambia) components mixed with magical realism. It's about technology and nature and people. It has love, hate and sex in huge bucketfuls.
The form and structure is complex but tight as a drum and strictly adhered to. But that structure doesn't for one second put strain or guardrails on the narrative. The language is lavish - visual, un-self-conscious, full of endle ...more
The form and structure is complex but tight as a drum and strictly adhered to. But that structure doesn't for one second put strain or guardrails on the narrative. The language is lavish - visual, un-self-conscious, full of endle ...more
Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift is a sumptuous, labyrinthine affair—a novel that breathes with the pulse of a continent, is shaped by the magical women in the story, and echoes with the laughter, grief, and ambition characters through Zambia's history. The Old Drift is a work rich in texture and so dizzyingly alive that one feels as though they’ve stumbled into the lush, shimmering heart of history itself—only to discover it’s a story long misnamed.
“...'history' was the word the English used fo ...more
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