Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
...brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching ...written in English by a West African...Nothing is too prodigious or too trivial to put down in this tall, devilish story. (Dylan Thomas in the Observer).
Palm Wine Drinkard
Summary
A devilish story written in English by a West African.
Palm Wine Drinkard Summary
About Amos Tutuola
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.
Additional information
GOR002993984
9780571049967
0571049966
Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
19770318
128
N/A
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