The Palm-Wine Drinkard Brent Ryan Bellamy Matteo Pasquinelli

Matteo Pasquinelli

both humans and other-than-humans

immediate life

That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree with a west wind blowing

The Palm-Wine Drinkard Brent Ryan Bellamy Matteo PasquinelliThis classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a creepy crawly imagination, The Palm Wine Drinkard is