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| Title:
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THE CROSSING, THE
A STORY OF EAST TIMOR |
| By: |
Luis Cardoso, Margaret Jull Costa (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
186207352X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781862073524 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
26 June, 2000 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Translated from: |
Portuguese |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Granta Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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