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Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution.A Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast, a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards commitment to the cause. In a bar in Brooklyn, Frank Holliwell is lunching with an old CIA friend who is begging for a favor. On the Tex–Mex border, Pablo, a Coast Guard deserter, a loco on speed, is about to take a job carrying mysterious contraband to Tecan. As these lives converge, as this small, crowded world erupts, the novel builds to an electrifying climax."Hold on to your tricorn hat, or your cruciform, or your Uzi... Mr Stone kicks the brain around; we live in heresy; Satan prevails. A Flag for Sunrise is the best novel I’ve read since Dostoevsky escaped from Omsk." - The New York Times"An ambitious adventure story about modern imperialism and modern morality . . . an action novel well garn

Who reads A Flag for Sunrise : a Novel?

Author

Robert Stone

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394407579

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14