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.
Read More
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.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Crossing: a Story of East Timor to cart. $156.57, good condition, Sold by Solr Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skokie, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Granta UK.
