When Amos Tutuola\'s first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest.
Tutuola\'s second novel, My Life in the Bus.
Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa\'s most influential writers.
Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted Palm-Wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure.
When Amos Tutuola\'s first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest