This is a bizarre novel about a past’s future. Namely the novel, which came out in 1963, poses a future in which there’s a large and quite dominant Polynesian/Oceanic culture, and we are getting a kind of oral history of a single member of that part of the world traveling to the United States (or what was the United States) and accidentally setting off an international incident and a war having been mistaken for being a Communist spy. This will happen in the year 2001. […]