The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Deads' Town / Amos Tutuola.

[New edition] / with an introduction by Wole Soyinka.

London : Faber & Faber, 2014.

viii, 136 pages ; 20 cm

Previous edition: New York: Grove Press, 1953.

'The Palm-Wine Drinkard' is the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead 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, the insatiable 'hungry-creature', and his own pyromaniac son.

9780571311538 (pbk)

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