“The Walk of Joenys” is a satirical novel by the famous science-fiction writer Robert Sheckley, written in 1962.
The novel is structured as a collection of tales from the peoples of 31st-century Oceania about the life and travels of a Polynesian named Joenys, who set out to visit the country of his ancestors—America. There he experiences a series of truly surreal adventures, meets representatives of the most diverse social layers of American society, and afterward becomes a witness to the Soviet–Chinese confrontation and a nuclear war!