The Weaverbirds, Y.B. Mangunwijaya, 1981
- Indonesia, #10
- Kindle, $10 on Amazon.com
- Read June 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: boring people
The Weaverbirds: Eyes are not like guns OR nipples, pick another metaphor please
War
The Crocodile: Let’s not accept that history is written by the victors, especially when “victors” means former colonial powers who prefer not to acknowledge the abuses perpetrated under their regimes
The Crocodile, Vincent Eri, 1970
- Papua New Guinea, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: colonial powers ripe for toppling
East Timor: False starts
Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, 1987
- East Timor, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Rating: 2/5
- Read: April 2017
- Recommended for: Experts
The Crossing, Luis Cardoso, 1997
- East Timor, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Rating: 3/5
- Read: April 2017
- Recommended for: Exiles
Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Gordon Peake, 2013
- East Timor, #5
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Read: April 2017
- Recommended for: Expositors
Tu: More Maori identity issues, this time addressed through war
Tu, Patricia Grace, 2004
- New Zealand, #10
- Paperback, £0.69 from alibris.com
- Read June 2015
- Rating: 4/5
- Opening Line: Dear Rimini and Benedict, You didn’t deserve ill-humour and rebuff, and I had no right to send you off with empty hearts when all you were asking was to get to know your ‘father’.
- Recommended for: the insatiably curious and tragically brave
The Great World
The Great World, David Malouf, 1990
- Australia, #19
- Paperback, alibris.com, $0.99
- Read: November 2014
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: War enthusiasts, very serious white men (or are these even distinct categories?)
Schindler’s Ark
Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List), Thomas Kenneally, 1982
- Australia, #16
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read October 2014
- Rating 3.5/5
- Recommended for: Human beings
My Brother Jack
My Brother Jack, George Johnston, 1964
- Australia, #13
- Bought from Alibris for $3.00
- Read October 2014
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Recommended for: Fans of Graham Greene and other mid-century realists
Around the World in 2000 Books 