The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Name: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Brand: Faber
Price: 27.99 AUD

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By: Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 3 July 2014 | Edition Number 2

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144 Pages

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1 x 13.1 x 20.1

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A stunning new cover edition of Amos Tutuola's debut novel, first published by Faber in 1952.

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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