The Green Pope

In a tropical climate divided between reality and magic, secrets of the sea and secrets of the land, the power of reality and the poetry of dreams, the Guatemalan novelist Asturias, Nobel laureate, delves into a personal life moving from naive intimate events to cosmic events with a style that blends prose, poetry, and song in his masterpiece "The Green Door" where the protagonist, a blonde American pirate, roams the seas trading weapons and women. Then he hesitates between the profession of piracy and his ambition to become a banana farmer spreading "greenness" wherever he goes. And when he makes up his mind, he advances with destructive steps, spreading terror among the indigenous people, burning their farms under the pretext of eradicating epidemics. An astonishing confrontation between the Anglo-Saxon pragmatic mentality and the dreamy Indian spirit in a moment of shattered dreams and turning to his magical savings at times and his silent revenge at others. And Joe Macer Thompson continues the path of destruction, plunder, and killing, but his pride is deeply wounded when he owns everything but is unable to love the love of Mayari Khallasia, who preferred to marry the river, in strange magical rituals through which Asturias paints wonderful love scenes, love defeated by reality, clinging to the impossible while the events intensify, and the sea pirate continues his journey of piracy on land under the name of the Green Door, King of the Bananas.