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This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.

'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer

'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe

The Palm-Wine Drinkard

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Paperback / softback by Amos Tutuola , Wole Soyinka

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This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 03/07/2014
    ISBN13: 9780571311538, 978-0571311538
    ISBN10: 0571311539

    Number of Pages: 144

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.

    'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer

    'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe

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