East Timor

The Crossing: A Story of East Timor, by Luis Cardoso (1997). In this memoir, Cardoso recounts growing up in east Timor during the 1960s and 1970s, struggling to find his own identity in a nation also struggling to emerge from centuries of colonial rule (first Portugal, then Indonesia). The crossing of the title refers to transitions: from childhood to adulthood, from colonization to independence.