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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Ever lost your favorite bartender and thought, ‘Well, guess I better go fetch him from the land of the dead’? No? Just me? Amos Tutuola’s “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” takes that weird impulse seriously and runs with it—right into a wild, shape-shifting world where the rules of reality are optional and English is doing somersaults. If you’ve ever wondered what a drunken quest through Yoruba folklore looks like, buckle up.
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