Buduneli

A clerk designs a flag under artillery fire for a nation that does not yet exist. He has no training, no time, and no idea what he's doing. The flag comes out muddy, stitched together from curtain scraps by men who can't write cursive. A bullet punches through the corner.

Yet it flies anyway.

BUDUNELI is a literary novel about a group of men who decide to will a nation into existence on the steppes of Central Asia, and the dozens of people who, one desperate act at a time, make it real.

BUDUN...