Review

Review: Nore Hoogstad's Gunfire Lullabies is a fictionalised account of a diplomat's year in East Timor

By Gordon Peake
January 29 2022 - 12:00am
Fires on the streets of Dili, as a local East Timorese boy runs by, September 1999. Picture: Getty Images
Fires on the streets of Dili, as a local East Timorese boy runs by, September 1999. Picture: Getty Images
  • Gunfire Lullabies, by Nore Hoogstad. $34.25.

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