This is East Timor:
This is the book summary:
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 history of his homeland takes as its central image a crossing—from child to adult, Portuguese to Timorese, tolerance to repression, colonialism to independence.
So...yeah. There's a bit of shit going on right now. I could not focus on this book...basically at all. I've actually written a post about everything a couple of times, but each time I get about halfway in the heaviness of it hits me and I have to stop.
But because of that I don't have much to say about this one. It didn't engage me enough to take my mind off of everything else. It didn't clearly tell where the story was taking place at each point so I had a hard time visualizing everything. Apparently East Timor was a place of exile. Honestly the most interesting parts were him talking about his dad who was a nurse. I think they ended up in East Timor for his dad to take care of people? It wasn't really clear if the family went for that or were actually exiled. Then somehow he ended up in Portugal, I think, but none of it was clear.
And that's it. I'm ready to move on to Ecuador.
