The Crossing: A Story of East Timor by Luís Cardoso

The Crossing: A Story of East Timor

Luís Cardoso with Jill Jolliffe (Contributor), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

155 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative reflective slow-paced
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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 his...

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informative 77%
challenging 33%
reflective 22%
adventurous 11%

Pace

slow 77%
medium 22%

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