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9781862074354
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.Cardoso, Luis is the author of 'Crossing A Story of East Timor' with ISBN 9781862074354 and ISBN 1862074356.
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