The Old Drift
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, Zambian myth and legend combine with the story of a drifter's mistake in 1904, setting in motion a cycle of retribution between black, white and brown Zambian families, stretching...
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In this debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, Zambian myth and legend combine with the story of a drifter's mistake in 1904, setting in motion a cycle of retribution between black, white and brown Zambian families, stretching forward into a science fiction-charged future.Autoren-Porträt von Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. She has received a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction, the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review and one of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her nonfiction book, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her short story, 'Take It', was a finalist for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. She is a Professor of English at Harvard.
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- Autor: Namwali Serpell
- 2020, 576 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 1784703990
- ISBN-13: 9781784703998
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative... 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 New York Times Book Review
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