The Palm-wine Drinkard
- Authors
- Tutuola, Amos
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Tags
- fantasy
- ISBN
- 9780571049967
- Date
- 2012-02-15
- Size
- 0.26 MB
- Lang
- en
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.