num_pages: 130
description: "...brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching ...written in English by a West African...Nothing is too prodigious or too trivial to put down in this tall, devilish story". (Dylan Thomas in the "Observer").
language: English
title: The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town
titlecomplete: The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town
genres: Fiction, African Literature, Magical Realism, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nigeria, Fantasy, Africa, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2978
places: Nigeria
publisher: Grove Press