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Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola (1993, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802133630

ISBN-139780802133632

eBay Product ID (ePID)578494

Product Key Features

Book TitlePalm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Magical Realism, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary

Publication Year1993

GenreFiction

AuthorAmos Tutuola

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-032520

ReviewsPraise for Amos Tutuola: "Tutuola, writing at a moment when the Yoruba culture he was born into was colliding with that of British Colonialism and Christian proselytism, weaves in aspects of the new West African modernity with Yoruba myth and oral storytelling so seamlessly you could blink and miss it. And the language, too, feels unique to the moment: Tutuola uses the Colonial British he learned in Anglican school to create a more propulsive and energetic version of English to tell the stories of Western Africa." -- Elijah Wolfson, Time Magazine , 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time Regardless of whether you attribute the success of the book to Tutuola's genius or just to the richness of Yoruban folklore, it's an undeniably amazing read: bizarre, exquisite, consistently hilarious, and at once lighthearted and profound." -- Granta Magazine , Best Book of 1952 "That mythic dimension is what I'm most interested in -- the way Tutuola blends the supernatural world seamlessly with human reality." -- Chigozie Obioma, Financial Times "Brief, thronged, grisly, and bewitching." -- Dylan Thomas, Observer, Praise for Amos Tutuola: "Tutuola, writing at a moment when the Yoruba culture he was born into was colliding with that of British Colonialism and Christian proselytism, weaves in aspects of the new West African modernity with Yoruba myth and oral storytelling so seamlessly you could blink and miss it. And the language, too, feels unique to the moment: Tutuola uses the Colonial British he learned in Anglican school to create a more propulsive and energetic version of English to tell the stories of Western Africa." -- Elijah Wolfson, Time Magazine , 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time "Regardless of whether you attribute the success of the book to Tutuola's genius or just to the richness of Yoruban folklore, it's an undeniably amazing read: bizarre, exquisite, consistently hilarious, and at once lighthearted and profound." -- Granta Magazine , Best Book of 1952 "That mythic dimension is what I'm most interested in -- the way Tutuola blends the supernatural world seamlessly with human reality." -- Chigozie Obioma, Financial Times "Brief, thronged, grisly, and bewitching." -- Dylan Thomas, Observer

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal823

SynopsisWhen Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard , appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African 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. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts , recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone., When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African 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. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone.

LC Classification NumberPR9387.9.T8P3 1994