{"product_id":"the-palm-wine-drinkard","title":"The Palm-Wine Drinkard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmos Tutuola's masterful first novel of a nightmarish quest into the land of the dead, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Wole Soyinka\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely considered to be his masterpiece, Amos Tutuola's debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Palm-Wine Drinkard\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1952. Named one of \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e's \"100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time\" and introduced here by Wole Soyinka, the novel tells the phantasmagorical story of a wealthy alcoholic who drinks 225 kegs of palm wine a day. When the man's personal tapster dies and leaves him without any remaining supply of alcohol, the man desperately follows the tapster into the nightmarish Dead's Town. Drawing on Yoruba folklore and narrated with a unique voice that mixes West African oral traditions with the Colonial British English that Tutuola learned at school, \u003ci\u003eThe Palm-Wine Drinkard\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal work of African literature from one of Nigeria's most influential writers and an important part of the global literary canon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942861734119,"sku":"9780802164018","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_017294a0-0924-4315-b0f7-e25856199d55.jpg?v=1775271177","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-palm-wine-drinkard","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}