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The Palm-wine Drinkard

(1952)
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The incredible adventures of a young man who is "The palm- wine drinkard, and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town". This is one of those germinal books, that stretches the imagination in directions one never expects. Written in English by a West African, the use of the language and the imagery it creates is extraordinary.


Genre: Fantasy

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