When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate ...
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When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone.
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You think you've got it rough? Try getting separated from your family during a guerilla insurgency and spending decades living in the Bush of Ghosts. Or, imagine losing the only palm-wine tapster who can keep up with your appetite for drink. After which you pursue the dead tapster into--you guessed it--the Bush of Ghosts. Amos Tutuola writes an English liberated from its crusty grammatical and stylistic moorings, and this pidgin cleverly recreates a rhythmic oral storytelling style. The tales are absolutely ridiculous and feature one outlandish creature after another, constant ju-ju battles, and unendurable miseries. "The Short Ghosts and Their Flash-Eyed Mother," "On the Queer Way to Homeward," and "Invisible Magnetic Missive Sent to Me from Home" are only a few of the treats contained herein.