The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Tutuola, A
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ISBN: 9780571311538
Publisher: Faber & Faber 2014
136 pages
Soft cover
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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- Title
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Tutuola, A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571311539
- ISBN 13
- 9780571311538
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2014
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