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A palm-wine drinker whose wine-tapper dies goes to fetch him from the dead: a Yoruba odyssey of metamorphoses, spirits, and cascading trials, in a rough English that T. S. Eliot accepted to publish with Faber in 1952. Raymond Queneau returned this text in 1953 as a French deliberately off-kilter, so singular that some believed Tutuola was the translator’s pseudonym.