Talking Location With … M J Robotham – VENICE
The Redundancy of Courage
Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1975
Winner of the E.M. Forster Award and shortlistedfor the Booker Prize, this brutal and beautifulnarration of the guerrilla war against theIndonesians in Timor, praised by Fretilin ForeignMinister and Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Hortafor its ‘perfect authenticity’.
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