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Historierna bestod av en blandning av eget skapande och material ur yorubafolkets muntliga berättartradition. När han hade sin andra längre berättelse klar, Palmvindrinkaren, skickade han den till ett engelskspråkigt bokförlag i Nigeria, Lutterworth Press, som refuserade men skickade den vidare till Faber and Faber i London, som publicerade den 1952. Boken blev omedelbart mycket uppmärksammad. Dylan Thomas skrev t ex en översvallande recension i The Observer. Den utkom strax också i USA, på Grove Press, och har tryckts i ständigt nya upplagor. Den har med några korta undantag aldrig varit out of print på över 40 år. Artur Lundkvist såg 1961 till att boken kom ut i svensk översättning på Tidens förlag, i Tellusserien. Det är denna översättning som Bakhåll nu återutger. "Jag har berusat mig med palmvin alltsedan jag var en tioårs pojke. Jag hade ingenting annat att göra i livet än dricka palmvin" inleds berättelsen. Huvudpersonen är äldst av åtta syskon, alla de övriga är flitiga i sitt arbete, själv duger han bara till att dricka palmvin, "från morgon till kväll och från kväll till morgon". Hans rike far är mycket förstående och skänker honom en plantage på 260 hektar med 560 000 palmer och anställer en palmvintappare som varje dag tappar hundrafemti kalebasser palmvin åt honom. "Men före klockan två på eftermiddagen hade jag druckit ur allihop. Då måste han gå och tappa sjuttifem kalebasser till, som jag drack ur till morgonen." Detta hejdlösa drickande fortsätter utan avbrott ända tills palmvintapparen en dag ramlar ner från sin stege och dör och leveransen av palmvin plötsligt uteblir. Huvudpersonen bestämmer sig då för att resa till de dödas land för att hämta tillbaka honom. Det blir en strapatsrik färd fylld av märkliga möten med udda existenser, spöken, skuggvarelser, osaliga andar. Tutuola skriver på engelska, alltså inte på sitt modersmål yoruba, utan på en mycket primitiv engelska (som Dylan Thomas kallade "young English") som skänker en alldeles speciell stämning åt hans historier. Det knaggliga språket gör tonen naiv, men berättelsens innehåll slår ändå fram med väldig kraft. Palmvindrinkaren (The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town, 1952) och My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954) är Tutuolas mest kända böcker. Han skrev ytterligare åtta.

Celebrating 30 years of Tori Amos' breakout album: Little Earthquakes!The official graphic novel celebrating 30 years of Tori Amos's breakout album: Little Earthquakes. The landmark release that established her iconic thematic voice, as well as her live intensity behind the keys with unflinching lyrics and songs that would inspire generations of artists and musicians. This graphic novel demonstrates the lasting influence of this defining work with 24 stories inspired by the 12 songs on the album, as well as the 12 ‘B-sides’ that accompanied the album and its associated singles. With star writers such as Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood being assembled by Z2 editor Rantz Hoseley, who previously edited the multi-award-winning Comic Book Tattoo, and who painted the cover for her recent Christmastide EP.

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house.An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. As each story unfolds, Amos Oz, builds a portrait of a village in Israel. It is a surreal and unsettling place. Each villager is searching for something, and behind each episode is another, hidden story. In this powerful, hynotic work Amos Oz peers into the darkness of our lives and gives us a glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday existence.By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize, previous winners of which include Philip Roth, Ivan Klima, Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter and John Banville.

Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness‘On the kibbutz it’s hard to know. We’re all supposed to be friends but very few really are’Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole.Nahum, a devoted father, can’t find the words to challenge his daughter’s promiscuous lover.The old idealists deplore the apathy of the young, while the young are so used to kibbutz life that they can’t work out if they’re impassioned or indifferent. In this short story collection Amos Oz reveals the secrets and frustrations of the human heart‘Lucid and heartbreaking’ Guardian

‘A writer of revelatory genius’ GuardianFollowing the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death; his years of service to the state and the riddle of his daughter's behaviour.‘Humorous, melancholy and touching’ New York Times

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters. The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in a Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world.

'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility’ Sunday TimesOne day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his backIn the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But as he engineers his escape, the arrival of Azariah Gitlin, a keen new recruit, brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities.

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. She declines and the author walks away, only to climb the steps to her flat, later that night. Or does he? In Amos Oz's beguiling, intriguing story the reader never really knows where reality ends and invention begins...

One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize.‘His characters…ride the river of history’ New Yorker'A beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story' Arthur Miller1950s Jerusalem.Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a private world of fantasy and suppressed desires.This 2015 edition includes an updated introduction from the author.

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders with fictional characters whose hopes and fears are hauntingly portrayed.

‘One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction’ The TimesIn the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity.Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence. Caught up in the fervour and unrest against the occupying forces,12-year old Proffy dreams of being an underground fighter. But some of his dreams are less heroic. Temptation lurks everywhere for the youth who wants to be a man – and betrayal not far behind.

Daring. Determined. Curious. Kind. More than 50 female Super Heroes from Marvel Comics take centre stage in this inspiring book for girls and women of all ages.How did Captain Marvel gain superhuman powers? When was Shuri crowned queen of Wakanda? From Gamora to Wasp, this beautiful illustrated book celebrates diverse female Super Heroes who use their strength, intelligence and courage to save the world. More than 50 character profiles explore the origins and achievements of fierce fan-favourites such as Ms Marvel, America Chavez, Squirrel Girl and Black Widow. With a foreword by Marvel Comics writer Kelly Thompson, DK's Fearless and Fantastic! is the ultimate feminist tribute to Marvel Comics' most powerful women and girls. This book will be a treasured gift for comic book fans and beginners, and fans of 2019's hugely popular Captain Marvel movie.Illustrated with stunning comic book artwork, and featuring four chapters based on personal qualities - Determined, Daring, Compassionate and Curious - this book for girls and women will create new fans of comics, and inspire the comic book creators of the future.