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The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town 1952

By Amos Tutuola

  • Fiction, Yoruba (African people), Folklore, Wine and wine making

A novel that 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.

FictionYoruba (African people)FolkloreWine and wine makingNigeria, fictionFiction (fictional works by one author)Postage stampsAlcoholicsNigerian fiction

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Plot-driven, earnest, open-ended and bleak.

  • character-ledplot-driven
  • earnestironic
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • warmbleak
  • gravecomic

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