The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Michael Thelwell, Amos Tutuola

The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Michael Thelwell, Amos Tutuola

307 pages first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction fantasy reflective slow-paced

Description

When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through ...

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