The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Softcover

Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching. (Dylan Thomas Observer)

Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do. (Chinua Achebe)

That mythic dimension is what I'm most interested in - the way [Tutuola] blends the supernatural world seamlessly with the human reality. (Chigozie Obioma Financial Times)

Surreal. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Salon)

This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature. 'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer 'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe