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The Palm-Wine Drinkard

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Availability:In StockContributor:Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka (Introduction by)Publish date:2025-06-17Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Grove PressISBN-13:9780802164018ISBN-10:802164013UPC:9780802164018Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FantasySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCD67EE6BZ

Amos Tutuola's masterful first novel of a nightmarish quest into the land of the dead, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Wole Soyinka

Widely considered to be his masterpiece, Amos Tutuola's debut novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard was first published in 1952. Named one of TIME's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" and introduced here by Wole Soyinka, the novel tells the phantasmagorical story of a wealthy alcoholic who drinks 225 kegs of palm wine a day. When the man's personal tapster dies and leaves him without any remaining supply of alcohol, the man desperately follows the tapster into the nightmarish Dead's Town. Drawing on Yoruba folklore and narrated with a unique voice that mixes West African oral traditions with the Colonial British English that Tutuola learned at school, The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a seminal work of African literature from one of Nigeria's most influential writers and an important part of the global literary canon.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Grove PressISBN-13:9780802164018ISBN-10:802164013UPC:9780802164018Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FantasySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCD67EE6BZ
Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. The son of a cocoa farmer, he attended several schools before training as a blacksmith. He later worked as a civil servant. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was published in 1952 and brought him international recognition. From 1956 until retirement, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company while continuing to write. His last book, The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories, was published in 1990. He died in Ibadan in 1997.
Publisher: Grove Press

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