Palm-Wine Drinkard
by Amos Tutuola
- Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 125
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571049967
- Reading Time
- ~2h 11min
Palm-Wine Drinkard is a book by Amos Tutuola. In 1977. It has 125 pages.
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When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) 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.
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When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since t...
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Palm-Wine Drinkard was written by Amos Tutuola.