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The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Tutuola, AISBN: 9780571311538 Publisher: Faber & Faber 2014 136 pages, Paperback 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.

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ISBN: 9780140276336

they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits

He arrives back for his first visit since starting school to find his house razed to the ground and the entire village moved up the road closer to a guard checkpoint

These are illegal under Nigerian law

He is obsessed with fame

when you step out into the city

one cannot help believing that the author is writing about himself

Jailed for 18 years under apartheid for unspecified sins

the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections

But in the 'eat-and-let-eat' atmosphere

but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed

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