No Friend But the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison - Behrouz Boochani

No Friend But the Mountains

Writing from Manus Prison

By: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian (Translator)

Paperback | 26 November 2019

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Long-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2019
Winner for ABIA General Non-fiction of the Year 2019Winner for ABIA General Non-fiction of the Year 2019
Winner for Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Prize for Literature 2019

'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan


In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally and indefinitely detained on Manus Island.

This book is the result. Written on a smuggled mobile phone and translated from Farsi, it is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through six years of incarceration and exile that - against all the odds - became an award-winning national bestseller.

About the Author

Behrouz Boochani holds a Masters degree in political geography and geopolitics. He is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, writer and filmmaker, founder of the Kurdish language magazine Weya, an Honorary Member of PEN International. In 2013, he fled Iran and became a political prisoner of the Australian Government incarcerated in the Manus Regional Processing Centre (Papua New Guinea).
Industry Reviews
'A powerful account ... made me feel ashamed and outraged. Behrouz's writing is lyrical and poetic, though the horrors he describes are unspeakable.'
Sofie Laguna

'A shattering book every Australian should read.'
Benjamin Law

'A magnificent writer. To understand the true nature of what it is that we have done, every Australian, beginning with the prime minister, should read Behrouz Boochani's intense, lyrical and psychologically perceptive prose-poetry masterpiece.'
The Age

'An essential historical document.'
The Australian

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