The Six Pointed Star

"Set in a Portuguese prison during the fascist era, this book is a composite tapestry of a place, a time, and a shifting population of 500 men. Almost any reader will be able to identify moments in their own lives when they were just this far away from committing a crime, or wanting to, and ending up as these men did. However many reasons there may be why people commit crimes, even heinous ones, prison does not cancel a person's humanity. That may be in itself the single most important 'message' the bookis trying to communicate"--