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The Palm Wine Drinkard [Paperback]

Amos Tutuola
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18 Mar 1977
'. . . 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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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (18 Mar 1977)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571049966
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571049967
  • Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 99,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy dreams 14 Jan 2012
Format: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
By Olga
Format: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 More than a folk tale 24 Jun 1999
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Format:Paperback
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 tale, particularly the unique style of delivering the story by talking, acting and dancing. When I started reading the story itself, I found a class of literature that was completely different from East and West. This is not merely a folk tell, the writer has got unimaginable way of thinking in his brain. Read the first paragraph and you will find you are shocked. You can't stop reading until it is finished.
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