Praise for The Palm-Wine Drinkard : "Tutuola's art conceals--or rather clothes--his purpose, as all good art must do."-- Chinua Achebe "Bracingly original in its voice and ideas."-- Elijah Wolfson, TIME , "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" "With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard . There's an exuberance to Tutuola's storytelling, an irreverent and gleeful merging of Yoruba and Western traditions. The novel revels in its inventive, hybrid cacophony. It's hard to resist its rhythmic cadences and mixed-up language . [Tutuola] played no small part in broadening the possibilities of African literature."-- Anderson Tepper, New York Times "What I love about The Palm-Wine Drinkard is how its language simultaneously has the sophistication of Joyce and the stammering of an actual drunk .

It's all over the place. The syntax is utterly uncanny and strange. The structure is deeply disorienting. It's just so radically itself . [Tutuola] doesn't sound like anyone else. He sounds like himself. He sounds like his own utterly unprecedented experience of life on the planet Earth . That's the ambition of every writer--to articulate an unprecedented consciousness.

And you'd be hardpressed to find anyone who does that better than Tutuola."-- Kaveh Akbar, Publishers Weekly "Brief, thronged, grisly, and bewitching."-- Dylan Thomas, The Observer "That mythic dimension is what I'm most interested in--the way [Tutuola] blends the supernatural world seamlessly with the human reality."-- Chigozie Obioma, Financial Times "Tutuola's writing remains strange, funny and remarkably original."-- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal.