The Palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town

Author: Amos Tutuola Title: The Palm-Wine Drinkard Genre: Fiction, Literature Publisher: Unknown Identifier: 9780571049967 Grade: ebook Length: 103 pages Listing: Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels Paperback, 125 pages Published: 1952 Edition: Côte d’Azur eBook Written by: Amos Tutuola. Home country: Nigeria The incredible adventures of a young man who is ‘The palm-wine drinkard, and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead’s Town’. This is one of those germinal books, that stretches the imagination in directions one never expects. Written in English by a West African, the use of the language and the imagery it creates is extraordinary. When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Jul 2023 - epub verified by zardox. 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 A devilish story written in English by a West African.