The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town
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The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town
（A Black cat book）
Grove Weidenfeld, c1984
- : pbk
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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"
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""'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe
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