![]() ![]() There is a good reason why the novel has been translated into Italian as Capelli, lacrime e zanzare – Hair, tears and mosquitoes. Readers familiar with Serpell’s earlier, shorter fiction will likely recognize some of these chapters as the previously published short stories ‘Muzungu,’ and ‘The Man with the Hole in His Face.’ Every one of its three sections is further subdivided into three chapters, each following a different character over a period of time and this gives the book a polyphonic effect. A novel in stories, the book’s structure is doubly tripartite. ![]() Nearing 600 pages, Namwali Serpell’s debut novel is a multigenerational and multiracial Zambian saga that spans the years between 1903 and a very futuristic 2023. ![]() ‘The Old Drift’ (Vintage, 2019) is an epic. Hard-hitting classic, or all huff and puff with no bite? An epic Zambian saga comes under scrutiny from our reviewer. ![]()
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