Title No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus prison / Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian

Published Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2018 ©2018

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Description xxxiv, 374 pages ; 24 cm regular print Summary "Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains. In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests. 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. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?"--Publisher's summary Analysis Australian Notes "Includes a foreword by Richard Flanagan, plus translator's note and essay"--back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Copyright © Behrouz Boochani 2018 ; translation copyright © Omid Tofighian 2018 Translated from the Farsi Winner Victorian Prize for Literature, 2019 Subject Boochani, Behrouz. Manus Island Regional Offshore Processing Centre Noncitizen detention centers -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island. Autobiographies. Noncitizens -- Australia -- Anecdotes. Detention of persons -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island. Detention of persons -- Australia. Political prisoners -- Biography. Political prisoners. Political refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes. Journalists -- Iran -- Biography. Political refugees -- Australia -- Biography. Refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes. Refugees -- Biography. Refugees, Kurdish -- Biography. Refugees, Kurdish -- Biography. Refugees. Illegal immigration -- Australia -- Anecdotes SUBJECT Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007506 Subject Illegal immigration -- Australia -- Anecdotes. Genre/Form Anecdotes. Biographies. Autobiographies. Reading nook Reading nook. Author Flanagan, Richard, 1961- writer of foreword Tofighian, Omid, translator ISBN 9781760555382 (paperback)

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