This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. 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. A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time
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