- Title:
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
- Written by:
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Behrouz Boochani
- Read by:
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Full Cast
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 1 minutes
- Published:
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July 01 2019
- Available Date:
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July 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655613763
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan Australia
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Price
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Bestseller
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2019
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction Book Award 2019
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019
An account of life inside Manus detention centre, from journalist and asylum-seeker Behrouz Boochani.
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?
'In the absence of images, turn to this book to fathom what we have done, what we continue to do. It is, put simply, the most extraordinary and important book I have ever read.'
Good Reading
'It is an unforgettable account of man's inhumanity to man that reads like something out of Orwell or Kafka, and is aptly described by Tofighian as 'horrific surrealism'. It is clear from Boochani's writing that he is a highly educated and philosophical man; he segues effortlessly between prose and poetry, both equally powerful.'
The Australian Financial Review
'Not for the faint-hearted, it's a powerful, devastating insight into a situation that's so often seen through a political – not personal – lens.'
GQ
'Boochani has produced a literary, journalistic and philosophical tour de force. It may well stand as one of the most important books published in Australia in two decades ...'
The Saturday Paper
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.'
Richard Flanagan