{"title":"Amos Tutuola","description":"Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. The son of a cocoa farmer, he attended several schools before training as a blacksmith. He later worked as a civil servant. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was published in 1952 and brought him international recognition. From 1956 until retirement, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company while continuing to write. His last book, The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories, was published in 1990. He died in Ibadan in 1997.","products":[{"product_id":"my-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts-paperback","title":"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmos Tutuola's second novel recounting the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Kaveh Akbar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1954, now acclaimed as a modern classic, and named one of \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e's \"100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time,\" \u003ci\u003eMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is the second novel by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola. A small boy finds himself lost in the heart of an impenetrable African forest, populated with fantastical beings and ghosts. As every hunter and traveler knows, it is almost impossible to leave the bush--yet the appearance of the television-handed ghostess may offer him a rare opportunity for escape. \u003ci\u003eMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of the surreal that blends Tutuola's native Yoruba culture with the encroaching influences of British and Christian colonialism in West Africa, a picaresque and darkly funny journey that is unique in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103175053535,"sku":"9780802164001","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aUTQzTAhS9780802164001.webp?v=1781090429"},{"product_id":"the-palm-wine-drinkard-paperback","title":"The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103177314527,"sku":"9780802164018","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vtc8v1qElz9780802164018.webp?v=1781090434"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/amos-tutuola.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}