East Timor
Subtitle: a nation's bitter dawn
By: Irena Cristalis.
Contributors: Cristalis, Irena, 1959-
Edition: 2nd ed, rev. & updated.
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York, NY; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781848130128; 9781848130135
Subjects: Timor-Leste -- History; Timor-Leste -- Politics and government; Timor-Leste -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Description: "Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful of journalists to refuse to be evacuated during the nightmarish Indonesian withdrawal, stayed on to report East Timor to the world, and to keep faith with the East Timorese whose story she wanted to tell. Her book is a vivid first-hand account of the lives of individual Timorese during the long decades of Indonesia's repressive occupation, their often heroic struggle for freedom, and their efforts to cope with the dramatic historic shifts engulfing them and their endeavours to rebuild their homeland."--Back cover.
Notes: 1st ed. entitled: Bitter dawn : East Timor, a people's story, published by Zed Books, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-331) and index.