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The Crossing: A Story of East Timor

East Timor hit the world’s newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia — one of the great expressions of a people’s democratic spirit. Exquisitely crafted and evocative, Luis Cardoso’s personal history of his homeland takes as its central image a crossing — from child to adult, Portuguese to Timorese, tolerance to repression, colonialism to independence.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 155
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781862074354
  • Genres
  • asia, memoir
  • Release date
  • 2002