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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNawali Serpell reads from her novel The Old Drift - 7pm 
 Friday 11-8-19\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the banks of the Zambezi River, a few 
 miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial 
 settlement called the Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small 
 African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus. 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. This error sets off a cycle of 
 unwitting retribution between these three Zambian families, as they 
 continually collide over the course of the century, into the present, and 
 beyond. \n\n“If, as she writes, ‘history is the annals of the bully on 
 the playground,’ then in The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell wreaks havoc on 
 the Zambian annals by rewriting the past, creating a new present, and 
 conjuring an alternative future. In refusing to be bound by genre, Serpell 
 is audacious and shrewd. This is a Zambian history of pain and 
 exploitation, trial and error, and hope and triumph.” —JENNIFER 
 NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI, author of Kintu \n\n“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\n\n\nNAMWALI SERPELL was born in Lusaka, Zambia. She is associate 
 professor of English at UC Berkeley. The Old Drift is her first 
 novel.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/01/18827771.php
SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell reads from her novel The Old Drift
LOCATION:Revolution Books \n2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/01/18827771.php
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