Amos Tutuola

Broschiertes Buch

The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories

Beschreibung

Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradition and imagination, which belongs to the same universal culture as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.

Autor

Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. The son of a cocoa farmer, he attended several schools before training as a blacksmith. He later worked as a civil servant. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was published in 1952 and brought him international recognition. From 1956 until retirement, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company while continuing to write. His last book, The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories, was published in 1990. He died in Ibadan in 1997.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 110g
• ISBN-13: 9780571316885
• ISBN-10: 0571316883
• Artikelnr.: 41270493