The Palm-Wine Drinkard

ISBN: 0802164013

Author: Tutuola, Amos

Condition: New

Amos Tutuolas masterful first novel of a nightmarish quest into the land of the dead, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Wole SoyinkaWidely considered to be his masterpiece, Amos Tutuolas debut novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard was first published in 1952. Named one of TIMEs 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 mans personal tapster dies and leaves him without any remaining supply of alcohol, the man desperately follows the tapster into the nightmarish Deads 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 Nigerias most influential writers and an important part of the global literary canon.