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The crossing : a story of East Timor by Luís Cardoso is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The crossing : a story of East Timor about?
East Timor hit the worlds newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia - one of the great expressions of a peoples democratic spirit. Exquisitely crafted and evocative, Luis Cardosos personal history of his homeland takes as its central image a crossingfrom child to adult, Portuguese to Timorese, tolerance to repression, colonialism to independence.
Who reads The crossing : a story of East Timor?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Luís Cardoso
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781862074354
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.15 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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