The Crossing A Story of East Timor Author:Luis Cardoso East Timor hit the worlds newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia one of the great expressions of a peoples democratic spirit. Exquisitely crafted and evocative, Luis Cardosos personal history of his homeland takes as its central image a crossing from child t... more »o adult, Portuguese to Timorese, tolerance to repression, colonialism to independence. [Cardoso is] the genuine article ... in the context of Timor a potent shaper of cultural identity and a reconciler. The Guardian« less