No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison /

Boochani, Behrouz,

No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison / Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian. - xii, 398 pages ; 23 cm

Original manuscript title unknown. "Foreword by Richard Flanagan"--Cover.

"In 2013, Kurdish 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 through five years of incarceration and exile."--


In English, translated from the Farsi.

Victorian Prize for Literature, 2019

9781487006839 1487006837

2018967932

20190045817 can


Boochani, Behrouz.
Boochani, Behrouz--Imprisonment.


False imprisonment--Papua New Guinea--Manus Island.
Refugees, Kurdish--Papua New Guinea--Manus Island--Biography.
Iranians--Papua New Guinea--Manus Island--Biography.
Illegal aliens--Papua New Guinea--Manus Island--Biography.
Journalists--Papua New Guinea--Manus Island--Biography.
Alien detention centers--Corrupt practices--Papua New Guinea--Manus Island.


Australia--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.


Autobiographies.

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