Will I love A Flag for Sunrise?

It combines an interesting geopolitical situation and a fascinating setting (Central America) and is beautifully written and paced.

I love Stone’s take on the world. He delves into the place where religion and politics meet and he describes each of those worlds in complex ways that transcend the expected and cliché’.

Structurally, the book was very helpful to me because Stone uses multiple and quite varied narrators, each of whom has their own chapter. This is a technique I used in my third novel and it’s a fascinating way to get into the minds of more than one or two… show more.

I think Robert Stone was one of the greatest American novelists of the recent era, a man with a profound concern for how political situations affect the individual. I love Stone’s ability to delve into complex situations.

This is fiction, unlike the last two recommendations mentioned above, and takes place in Central America during the Seventies. I love books about political situations, and I love novels set in other countries. Stone is a master of both.

He was also a humble, good man, though maybe I’m not completely objective because he provided a generous blurb for my first novel. I… show more.