Gordon Peake

Beloved Land (eBook, ePUB)

stories, struggles, and secrets from Timor-Leste

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE 2014 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDAt the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. From that moment, those who fought for independence have faced a challenge even bigger than shaking off Indonesian occupation: running a country of their own.Beloved Land picks up the story where world attention left off. Blending narrative history, travelogue, and personal reminiscences based on four years of living in the country, Gordon Peake shows the daunting hurdles that the people of Timor-Leste must overcome to build a nation from scratch, and how much the international community has to learn if it is to help rather than hinder the process. Family politics, squabbles, power struggles, old romances, and even older grudges are woven into life in this land of intrigue and rumours in the most remarkable ways.Yet above all, Beloved Land is a story about the one million East Timorese who speak nearly 20 different languages, and who are exuberantly building their nation. Written with verve and deep affection, the book introduces a set of colourful Timorese and international characters, and brings them to life unforgettably. PRAISE FOR GORDON PEAKE'Besides being a political diagnosis, it's an absorbing piece of travel writing, vivid and full of well-turned character sketches The mixture of forthrightness and warmth, and knowledge, makes this book not simply informative but in a quiet way exemplary.' The Saturday Age'Peake's book is a poignant and invariably deadpan mix of anecdote and analysis, and in my view is the best thing written in English about the country in many a long year.' The Edge Review

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781922072689
• Artikelnr.: 39930782

Autorenporträt

Gordon Peake was born in Northern Ireland, and gained a Bachelor of Laws from Queen's University before attending the University of Oxford, where he acquired a Master of Philosophy in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics and International Relations. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in a number of countries in the developing world, and has published widely on peacekeeping and police reform. Dr Peake has held positions at the University of Ulster, the International Peace Institute in New York, and Princeton University. He lived and worked in Dili in 2007-11, and is currently a visiting fellow at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University.