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The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories
| Author: | Amos Tutuola |
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Faber and Faber, 2014 Faber and Faber, 1990 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. 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.
Table of Contents:
- The Village Witch Doctor - short fiction
- A Short Biography of Tortoise - short fiction
- A Short Biography of Yanribo, Tortoise's Wife - short fiction
- Ajao and the Active Bone - short fiction
- Don't Pay Bad for Bad - (1960) - short fiction
- Akanke and the Jealous Pawnbroker - (1974) - short fiction
- Remember the Day After Tomorrow - (1969) - short fiction
- Ade, the Traitor - short fiction
- Rere, the Disobedient Son - short fiction
- The Duckling Brothers and Their Disobedient Sister - (1961) - short fiction
- The Rich Husbandman and his Odd-looking Pawn - short fiction
- The Greedy Tortoise and the Orisa-Oko - short fiction
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