The Island of Darkness

Paulino da Conceição is a Timorese man with a terrible secret. Along with his family, he witnessed the departure of the Portuguese from East Timor and all the events that followed, becoming a mere pawn in the circumstances that mediated the Indonesian invasion of 1975 and the 1999 referendum that granted the country independence.
There is only one person to whom Paulino can confess his secret - but will he have the courage to do so?

A poignant novel where fiction blends with reality to expose, in a dramatic, powerful and intense rhythm, the tragic truth that only literary creation, when combined with historical narrative, can reveal.