About the book: 1948 / The hero of the story, sailor Frey Gorn, as a result of a shell shock, acquires the gift of reading thoughts and finds himself involved in the political intrigues of his homeland, the “banana republic” of Batata .The pamphlet story, written in 1948, grotesquely depicts a third world country, a raw materials appendage, in which the oligarchs’ struggle for power is fueled by spy mania and covered up by democratic chatter.