The Old Drift -

Namwali Serpell

Hogarth

2019

640 páginas

21h 20m

ISBN-10: 1101907142

Three families intersect over three generations, traveling from India, Italy, England, and ultimately Zambia: a country that becomes a character in itself, from Livingstone’s “discovery” of Victoria Falls in 1855 to a brilliantly imagined Southern Africa of 2050. Split into three Books—the Grandmothers, the Mothers, and the Children—the story follows these families with beautifully human detail, all framed within an interstitial Greek chorus: the voice of a swarm of mosquitoes.