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Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Undelivered Lectures
National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2020"Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging."--The New York Times"Serpell's vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again."--Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIf evolutionary biologists, ethical ...Show more
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Category: Fiction
A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old Drift I don't want to tell you what happened; I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they are alone together, there is an accident ...Show more
The Furrows - An Elegy by Namwali Serpell
Category: Fiction
A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old DriftA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR and NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARI don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.Cassandra is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One ...Show more
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Category: Fiction
'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' SALM ...Show more
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Category: Fiction
Electrifying, playful, ambitious, brilliant - a Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time 'It's difficult to think of another novel that is at once so sweepingly ambitious and so intricately patterned, delivering t ...Show more
The Old Drift - A Novel by Namwali Serpell
Category: Fiction
An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for 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. He ...Show more
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