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.
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'Luis Cardoso's book reads like a novel, but is definitely not fiction. It is a beautifully written story of his life, finely intertwined with the tragedy of East Timor? Contemporary Review
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Original Language: Portugese --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Crossing into a brave new world,
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This review is from: The Crossing: A Story of East Timor (Paperback)
A highly authentic account of a life growing up in rural Timor, followed by a move to the capital Dili, thence to Portugal. This book offers some unique insights which, to the best of my knowledge, are not available anywhere else. It is a privilege to be writing this review on the first day of Timor's birth as an independent nation, after being subject to domination by invading forces for the last 450 years.
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It was a hot Thursday in the month of June 1990. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mali Mau, East Timor, Alves Aldeia, Portuguese Youth, Master Jaime, Dom Boaventura, Nicolau Lobato, Master Fernando, Second World War, Areia Branca, Fernando Pessoa, Master Alberto, Mário de Noronha, Minister of Defence, Red Cross, Voz de Timor New!
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It was a hot Thursday in the month of June 1990. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mali Mau, East Timor, Alves Aldeia, Portuguese Youth, Master Jaime, Dom Boaventura, Nicolau Lobato, Master Fernando, Second World War, Areia Branca, Fernando Pessoa, Master Alberto, Mário de Noronha, Minister of Defence, Red Cross, Voz de Timor New!
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- Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes on page 102
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- Under Western Eyes (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Joseph Conrad in Front Matter
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra on page 102
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra on page 102
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