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…
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 and its oppression. Before that – as a Portuguese colony and for twenty-four years of murderous Indonesian rule – it had been ignored. Between the silence and the headlines is the story of a people str…