#UPisLit One-Minute Book Review: Amos Tutuola – The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Hi! I’m Jordan from the Tuks Library, and welcome
to the first installment in our brand new series
of #UPisLit one-minute book reviews. Today I’ll
be talking about The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos
Tutuola, an absolutely fantastic fantasy-
adventure novel from Nigeria. It’s one of
my all-time favorites; the style is completely
unique and it’s just a lot of fun! So basically
the premise of the novel: the main character
really likes a drink… He really likes a drink…
So he hires someone to tap palm wine for him
so that he can drink constantly, but then his
palm wine tapster dies and he gets so desperate
for another drink he decides to take all of his
father’s juju and embark on this dangerous journey
through the bush to the land of the dead
to rescue the palm-wine tapster. Along
the way he encounters all sorts of monsters and
creatures and ghosts that are just so imaginative,
it’s fantastic. If you’re a fan of Douglas
Adams, Ben Okri or Terry Pratchett, or if you
really like the Studio Ghibli films as well, then
I can’t recommend The Palm-Wine Drinkard enough.
You can find a copy on level 6 of the
Merensky 2 Library, and you’ll thank me later.