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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
No Friend But the Mountains Writing from Manus Prison Author:Behrouz Boochani ?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 — Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains . . . — People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found ... more »asylum within their chestnut forests . . .
Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?
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.« less