The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town (1952)

A drinker's search for his dead tapster moves through encounters whose transformations obey the force of the telling. Tutuola's first novel draws on Yoruba oral traditions and makes English carry an unpredictable rhythm of repetition and invention. Let the episodes accumulate rather than demanding a conventional quest's rules. The disorienting shifts between the matter-of-fact and the impossible are its particular discovery.