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The Redundancy of Courage

The Redundancy of Courage

Author(s): Timothy Mo

Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1975

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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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At the end of this sometimes moving often desperately enthralling novel the narrator says of himself, “I wandered bizarrely, often with that feeling of standing outside myself as a separate and dispassionate watcher…” and...

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