num_pages: 136
description: Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle is the fabulous tale of Simbi, a rich and beautiful girl with a wonderful singing voice. She tires of her comfortable lifestyle, and decides that she must come to know poverty and punishment. The story tells, with terrifying imagination and comic invention, of how she achieves this experience and how, in the end, she escapes from it.Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.
language: English
title: Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle
titlecomplete: Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle
genres: Africa, Fiction, Fantasy, African Literature
ratings_count: 69
places: Nigeria
publisher: City Lights Publishers