TUTUOLA, Amos.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Palm-Wine Drinkard. First edition of Tutuola's first published novel, which brought him international recognition.The Palm-Wine Drinkard has "become a classic of modern African literature, widely taught and successfully adapted as a folk opera in Nigeria. In it, Tutuola retells many of the stories he first heard as a child in Abeokuta, a Yoruba-speaking town in western Nigeria where he was born in 1920" (Niven). The manuscript was recommended for publication by T. S. Eliot in his role as director at Faber and Faber; upon its release, Dylan Thomas reviewed the book as "brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching", further commenting that "nothing is too prodigious or too trivial to put down in this tall, devilish story" (p. 7).

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