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The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town

Amos Tutuola

  • 125 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1952
  • 12 editions
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1 About this book

A novel that 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.

  • Yoruba (African people)
  • Nigeria
  • Folklore
  • Alcoholics

2 About Amos Tutuola

1920–1997

Amos Tutuola (Yoruba: Ámósì Tutùọlá; 20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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