My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Amos Tutuola

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571311552
• Year: 2014

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.

'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• The Meaning of “Bad” and “Good”
• In the Bush of Ghosts
• The Smelling-Ghost
• My Life in the  7th Town of Ghosts
• My Life with Cows
• A Cola Saved Me
• At a Ghost Mother’s  Birthday Function
• My First Wedding Day  in the Bush of Ghosts
• On my Way to the  9th Town of Ghosts
• River-Ghosts Gala-day under the River
• In the 20th Town of Ghosts
• In the Spider’s Web Bush
• The Short Ghosts and their  Flash-eyed Mother
• Barbing Day in the Town of Short Ghosts
• I Become an  Aggressor for Ghosts
• The Super Lady
• In the Nameless-town
• Where Woman Marries Woman
• Hopeless-town
• On the Queer Way to Homeward
• Lost or Gain Valley
• Son Divides Us
• I meet my Dead Cousin  in the 10th Town of Ghosts
• Invisible Magnetic Missive Sent to Me from Home
• Bad-bye Function
• Television-handed Ghostess
• Hard to say “No” and Hard to say “Yes”
• The Future-Sign Tree
• Gladness Becomes Weeping
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright