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The Palm-wine Drinkard:

And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Grove Press, 1994 - Fiction - 307 pages
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.
  

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Review: The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

User Review  - Amy - Goodreads

So I only read the Palm-Wine Drinkard and the title is appropriate considering how much this felt like a drunk person telling about their dreams. However, there is a lot of interesting imagery, even if it's hard to latch onto any sort of narrative. An odd story, but thankfully fairly short. Read full review

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User Review  - Sergio - Goodreads

I could not possibly attempt to explore the true depth of these two novels. I simply don't have the cultural, linguistic, or literary knowledge to truly understand them at their essence. Tutuola's ... Read full review

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About the author (1994)

Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He received his elementary education at a Salvation Army school and has lived mostly at Ibadan, where he was for a long time a messenger. His highly controversial reputation as a writer is based on his unique style, a type of pidgin English. Tutuola's most popular work so far is his romance, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), an extremely imaginative tall tale drawn from Yoruba legends and myths about a journey into the land of the dead. Despite the controversy surrounding Tutuola's "wrong" use of English, his historical significance as a writer cannot be disputed. Among the first black African writers to be published and win some degree of international recognition, he was also the first writer to see the possibilities of translating African mythology into English in an imaginative way. For all the controversy, Tutuola is highly popular and his books have been translated into many languages.

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