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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 PalmWine Drinkard

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    A Paperback / softback by Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka


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

      Book Synopsis

      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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