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The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Amos Tutuola author Wole Soyinka editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:3rd Jul '14

Should be back in stock very soon

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A stunning reissue of Amos Tutuola's debut novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard, first published by Faber in 1952, along with the release of Tutuola's complete works into ebook for the first time.

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

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

ISBN: 9780571311538

Dimensions: 199mm x 125mm x 10mm

Weight: 120g

144 pages

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