'A landmark appraisal... deep and enriching' ***GUARDIAN'***An exhilarating meeting of critical minds' OBSERVER'Serpell is a superlative essayist' DIANA EVANS'Serpell brings her expertise and eye to Toni Morrion's singular literary genius' HARPER'S BAZAARThe essential companion to Toni Morrison’s work, written by Namwali Serpell, ‘one of the most innovative and intelligent writers toda...

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 philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face...

**Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020**'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of RosewaterOn the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift.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...

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 day, when they're alone together, there's an accident and Wayne is lost forever. Though ...

A short story by Namwali Serpell from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Double Men’, a secret liaison during a Zambian bonding ceremony has repercussions for two old female friends.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its be...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, read by Adjoa Andoh, Richard E. Grant and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.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 sweepin...

“A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.”—Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book ReviewA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Atlantic • BuzzFeed • Tordotcom • Kirkus Reviews • BookPageWINNER: The Arthur C. Clarke Award • The Los Angeles Times...

Un increíble debut, con ecos de García Márquez y Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, convertido en toda una sensación entre la crítica norteamericana.En las orillas del río Zambezi, a solo unos kilómetros de las majestuosas cataratas Victoria, se encuentra un viejo enclave colonial llamado The Old Drift, un lugar donde confluirán los destinos de tres familias de orígenes muy distintos: una africana, una interracial procedente de Inglaterra y otra que llega de Italia para con...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, AND LIT HUBNATIONAL BESTSELLERAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor—“a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)“A landma...

Brought to you by Penguin.The essential companion to Toni Morrison’s work, written by Namwali Serpell, ‘one of the most innovative and intelligent writers today’ (Financial Times)Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and most beloved of writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, ‘she is our only truly canonical bl...

Brought to you by Penguin.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're alone together, there's an accident, and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother can't stop searching. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt: How do you grieve an absence? And how does it feel?As C grows older, she reliv...

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize“A triumph.”—New York MagazineFrom one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive and “enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the myste...