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The Palm Wine Drinkard [Paperback]

Amos Tutuola (Author)

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber (18 Mar 1977)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0571049966
ISBN-13: 978-0571049967
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'. . . brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching . . . written in English by a West African . . . Nothing is too prodigious or too trivial to put down in this tall, devilish story.' Dylan Thomas in the Observer

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5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy dreams, 14 Jan 2012

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This review is from: The Palm Wine Drinkard (Paperback)

Weird surrealistic fantasy stuff, but very compelling and an addictive joy. Unclassifiable, but rather similar to the "Famished Road" genre of Ben Okri. It must have made an enormous impact in the 1950s!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best african storytelling prose ever!, 26 April 2011

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This review is from: The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town (Hardcover)

Very nice and naive book. My first ecnounter with written African oral literature. Avery graphic tale! 'Palm Wine Drunkard' is simply pure, ludicrous and laughable fun.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surrealy inventive., 7 Sep 2006

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Though Tutuola did not consider himself a writer, more a collector of folk stories, this does not affect how affecting the 'Palm-Wine Drinkard' can be. I have never read anything quite so surreal, linguistically inventive or bizzarely compelling. Anyone with an interest in West African culture, folk tales in general or the stranger side of the human imagination should own a copy.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Oral tradition as text
The Palm-wine Drinkard is a myth and cannot really be read as a novel. It is in style and contents very similar to the numerous myths relayed by Joseph Campbell in his volumes of... Read more

Published on 23 July 2009 by Jesper Jorgensen

4.0 out of 5 stars If you fell like traveling to a different world.
It's a really nice book,
If you like a different typt of reading this is for you.
There is always something happening in the book, every page has kind of a different... Read more

Published on 6 Jun 2009 by mtpereira

5.0 out of 5 stars More than a folk tale
I bought the Bangla translated version of this book from a second-hand bookstore in Bangladesh. That one had biography of Amos Tutuola and a brief introduction about African folk... Read more

Published on 24 Jun 1999

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