Crossing: a Story of East Timor by Luis Cardoso

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Crossing: a Story of East Timor by Luis Cardoso

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Summary

This memoir describes Cardoso's childhood on the island of Atauro, surrounded by folkstories and the scent of the "ai-dik-funam", to adolescence in the seminary, to joining other Timorese students in Lisbon, in a pilgrimage to the colonial fatherland which he realizes is in fact an exile.

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Crossing: a Story of East Timor by Luis Cardoso

Luis Cardoso's beautifully lyrical memoir of growing up in East Timor portrays a people and a culture struggling to form their own identity under successive waves of colonialism. Its central image is a travessia, a crossing: between child and adult, Portugese and Timorese, tolerance and repression, colonialism and independence.

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Since returning to Timor, Luis Cardoso has served on the Maubere Resistance National Committee, and worked as a reporter, a teacher and a storyteller. This is his first book.
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ISBN 13 9781862073524
ISBN 10 186207352X
Title Crossing: a Story of East Timor
Author Luis Cardoso
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Granta Books
Year published 2000-06-26
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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