Language: English
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Published: Aug 28, 2009
jesus the portrait this painted. so deeply researched and understaded and gorgeous. the ending is literally. god. perfect? it says SO MUCH about what became of these characters by saying hardly anything at all and im obsessed with that.
Description:
When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever.