“This is the story of a nation - not a kingdom or people - so it begins, of course, with a white man.” Here there was an old colonial settlement that came to be known as The Old Drift and an old drifter caught up in an event that sets off the intertwined narrative. It begins near the infamous Victoria Falls in an area five miles above the Falls on the banks of the Zambezi River, where it’s deepest and narrowest and easiest for ‘drifting’ a body across the other side. The novel is book-ended by brief chapters entitled The Falls and The Dam. It is a vast tome, that traverses generations and continents, though the thing that connects them all is the country Zambia. I read this over a period of four weeks in a group read along in July.
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