Description
Title: No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Author: Behrouz Boochani
ISBN: 9781487006839
Publisher: Anansi International
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher : “Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” — From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan
In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.
He has been there ever since.
This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi.
It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile.
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Literature, Australia’s richest literary prize, No Friend But the Mountains is an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.
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