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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Publisher
Faber & FabereBook ISBN
9780571311545
Year
2014Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard
- I was a palm-wine drinkard…
- Afterword
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright