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Buduneli
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Alejandro Grenier
Published: May 7 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.
BUDUNELI is told through dozens of voices: the clerk who approves apple pie as the national food without ever having seen one, the farmer who internalizes an identity he never asked for, the boy who fires a rocket launcher and earns a word he still doesn't quite understand, the monk who trades his robes for a rifle and the soldier who trades his rifle for robes. Told through battle reports, fax transmissions, and a polished government website for an annexed republic that never asked to be one, the novel explores what it costs to build a nation from nothing: not just guns and borders, but anthems, cooking committees, and the fragile agreement among strangers that they are, somehow, one people.
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