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The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts Amos Tutuola
Publisher: Grove press

Amos Tutuola's Palm Wine Drinkard has the distinction of being the first African novel to have achieved international recognition. The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts Amos Tutuola 1993 Grove press ISBN13:9780802133632;ISBN10:0802133630. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Nigerian literature at the time consisted of the writers associated with the Onitsha Market, an indigenous phenomenon, and Amos Tutuola's intoxicating The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,. I'm thinking of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and The Palm-Wine Drinkard, in particular. Don't Pay Bad for Bad is a collection of rare and previously unpublished short stories by Amos Tutuola (author of The Palm-Wine Drinkard, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, etc.). In 1963, Africa's only Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka wrote that, 'Of all his novels, The Palm Wine Drinkard (1st book only prior to the 2nd, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts) remains his best and the least impeachable. Another of his works was the inspiration of the classic David Byrne and Brian Eno album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Amos Tutuola (1920 – 1997) was a largely self-taught Nigerian writer who became internationally praised for books based in part on Yoruba folktales, especially the phantasmagorical classic The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952). He did The Palm Wine Drinkard and My Life In The Bush of Ghosts in the 50s and early 60s. Friday October 29, 2010 12:50pm EDT. Who wrote the visionary novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his dead Palm Tapster in the Deads` Town. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: Amos.