The Old Drift is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism a dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.” —SALMAN RUSHDIE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. “Namwali Serpell’s vibrant, intellectually rich debut novel, The Old Drift, is in keeping in that tradition, and like any good nation-hoovering novel, it too refuses to conform to expectations This oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author’s set design is intentionally surreal and ironicAuthor: Namwali Serpell. · The Old Drift stays true to this history, down to the names of the “Afronauts” involved and their training techniques - an oil drum and a tyre swing were used to simulate weightlessness in Author: Nadifa Mohamed.
Namwali Serpell won a Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature in Fiction.. Her first novel, The Old Drift (Hogarth, ), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction "that confronts racism and explores diversity," the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the L.A. Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in It was short listed for the L.A. Times' Ray. Namwali Serpell's extraordinary, ambitious, evocative first novel, The Old Drift, contributes powerfully to this new wave The Old Drift is a strong and confident enough piece of writing to stand on its own two feet and is perhaps not well served by being placed on the shoulders of giants The novel tells the intertwined stories of three families. Namwali Serpell's debut novel, The Old Drift, asks a lot of big questions about Zambia but also more generally about the history of the postcolonial world: How does a nation come into being?How.
The Old Drift is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism a dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.” —SALMAN RUSHDIE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. Book Review: 'The Old Drift,' By Namwali Serpell Namwali Serpell's lush, sprawling new novel is a speculative history — and future — of Zambia, from colonialism to an ill-fated space program. "Namwali Serpell’s vibrant, intellectually rich debut novel, The Old Drift, is in keeping in that tradition, and like any good nation-hoovering novel, it too refuses to conform to expectations This oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author’s set design is intentionally surreal and ironic.
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