Jose Calderon AbboMD

Flyn’s narrative is an offering of dark but beautiful non fiction , a mirror warning us from the other side of the image, a call where the past , the present and the future coalesce in both a grave voice of the painful watcher, the persistent questioning of that which was left behind, and a birdsong of hope. Is a book where a brown grave and a green bud cohabitate. Islands of abandonment is very well researched and delivered both like a non fiction book , but also like a travelogue, often a pictographic narrative and sometimes , a poem. Must read if you are interested in ecology , climate change , the production system of growth, nature, or , may dare, if you like climate sci fi. Although it is not a science fiction book on climate , each chapter reads like a short story. Thank you Flyn!

A most Vivid representation of the day-to-day of the war in SE Spain and the human sprit behind the small but meaningful incidents of conflict to the individual caught in the big machinery of war. It is almost as if two wars are fought simultaneously, the rank and file war depicted by Orwell, and the larger historic war we learn from history’s hindsight. Bravo Orwell!