''The Crossing'' is a
memoir
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by
East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...
ese writer
Luís Cardoso
Luís Cardoso (born 8 December 1958) is a contemporary East Timorese writer. His work focuses on the history of his homeland. It is written in Portuguese and has been translated into other languages including French and English. In 2021, he wo ...
. It is based on the authors experience as a child and young man in
Timor
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, before the
Indonesian invasion, and his life as an exile in
Portugal
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during the Indonesian occupation. According to Claudiany Pereira, it helps found in literature the imagination of a new nation
[Claudiany Pereira. "Luís Cardoso e a vivência da diáspora: nota sobre a literatura de Timor-Leste" in ''Língua e Literatura'' 12:3 (2006), available at: http://www.fw.uri.br/publicacoes/linguaeliteratura/artigos/n12_3.pdf]
References
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East Timorese culture
2000 novels