The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Name: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571311538
Price: 14.44 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Amos Tutuola

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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Weight: 120g
Dimensions: 125 x 199mm
Publication Date: 03 Jul 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571311538

About Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta Nigeria in 1920. The son of a cocoa farmer he attended several schools before training as a blacksmith. He later worked as a civil servant. His first novel The Palm Wine Drinkard was published in 1952 and brought him international recognition. From 1956 until retirement he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company while continuing to write. His last book The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories was published in 1990. He died in Ibadan in 1997.