The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, ...
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The Palm Wine Drinkard (not drunkard) is about a man who just loves his palm wine and goes on a rather long journey in search of his former palm wine tapster.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Novel by Amos Tutuola
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When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba ...
Feb 22, 2022 ˇ The narrator of the story is a young man who likes drinking palm-wine. So his dad gets him a whole farm filled with palms and hires a special ...
Nov 3, 2023 ˇ The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a 1953 novel by Amos Tutuola about an unnamed man who goes on a journey looking for a deceased palm-wine tapster.
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Amos Tutuola. Nigeria. The Palm-wine Drinkard. And his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town 1952, EN The incredible adventures of a young man who is ...
Nov 12, 2020 ˇ In the forest the Drinkard meets a creature whose two large eyes “were as big as bowls” and feet as “long and thick as a pillar of a house”.
7 days ago ˇ The story is a classic quest tale in which the hero, a lazy boy who likes to spend his days drinking palm wine, gains wisdom, confronts death, ...
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Darkly sparkling, "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" is gruesomely fantastical, erotic for its sheer sensuality, and utterly absorbing...as when the narrator is chased ...
A small boy, left alone to face the terrors of the bush, the impenetrable thickets of the topical forest inhabited only by ghosts, meets all the vile spirits of ...