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title: "The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
brand: "amos tutuola"
price: "26583CFA"
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

**Brand:** amos tutuola
**Price:** 26583CFA
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- **What is this?** The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by amos tutuola
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    trippy, eery and thought-provoking
  

*by E***G on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2014*

It's a different sort of english to read, and takes a bit of adjustment to get in to the linguistic universe.  Still, once you make the adjustment, the language fits the storytelling well, disturbing in its depictions at times.  My partner and I don't have the context to interpret meaning from everything, though we do have a dark sense of humour and do actually read this book before bed time, town by town.Don't read this book on drugs, if only to avoid the redundancy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    this book comes in two parts, my life in ...
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017*

this book comes in two parts, my life in the bush of ghosts was quite interesting and a very novel concept. however the palm wine drunkard was to hard of a read and I never finished it

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    TOWARD AN INTERLANGUAGE IN TUTUOLA'S FICTION
  

*by V***A on Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2010*

In attempting to convey the imagination and experiences lived by his people, Amos Tutuola wrote a novel, The Palm Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts(1954),that earned him both encomium and opprobrium. In this novel, he communicates not only the attitudes and value systems of his characters but also their speech mannerisms. Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard is the written form of a Yoruba composite folktale, which attempts to simulate in writing the live performance of a competent Yoruba praise-singer. Tutuola resorts to linguistic experimentation as a creative writing canon purposefully as illustrated in his lexical choices in the novel. In his attempt to translate African cultural particularities into the English language,this writer transposes ethno-texts into the written word. All in all, The Palm Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a success story in linguistic innovation in literature. Readers will emerge from a reading of this novel incredibly enriched![Dr. Peter Vakunta is a professor of literature and literary theory]

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*Last updated: 2026-02-23*