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The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts

By Amos Tutuola

Book information

Publisher
Grove press
Year
1993
ISBN
9780802133632, 0802133630
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1214305 bytes)
Edition
1st Grove Press Ed
Pages
209\209
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone.

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