The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Deads' Town

This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination',The Palm-Wine Drinkardis regarded as the seminal work of African literature.'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas,Observer'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe