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

About this book

A novel that 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.

Subjects

  • alcoholics
  • fiction
  • fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • folklore
  • nigeria, fiction
  • nigerian fiction
  • postage stamps
  • wine and wine making
  • yoruba (african people)