No Friend But the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison
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Overview
"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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- ISBN-13: 9781487006839
- ISBN-10: 1487006837
- Publisher: Anansi International
- Publish Date: June 2019
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Page Count: 416
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