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The Palm-wine Drinkard
Amos Tutuola
publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1952



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Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola describes the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure.


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BOOKS BY AMOS TUTUOLA:

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
1954
Tutuola's second novel recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest.
The Palm-wine Drinkard
1952
Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola describes the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure.
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