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No Friend but the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison, Paperback by Boochani, Behrouz; Tofighian, Omid (TRN); Flanagan, Richard (FRW), ISBN 1487006837, ISBN-13 9781487006839, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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."--

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PublisherHouse of Anansi Press

ISBN-101487006837

ISBN-139781487006839

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038411192

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Book TitleNo Friend but the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Public Policy / Immigration, Emigration & Immigration, Personal Memoirs, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Activists, Penology, Oceania

Publication Year2019

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorBehrouz Boochani

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2018-967932

ReviewsPRAISE FOR BEHROUZ BOOCHANI AND NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS Winner, Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature Winner, Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction "The winner of Australia's richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony. His absence was not by choice. Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the $25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier's literary awards and the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature on Thursday night, is not allowed into Australia. The Kurdish Iranian writer is an asylum seeker who has been kept in purgatory on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for almost six years, first behind the wire of the Australian offshore detention centre, and then in alternative accommodation on the island. Now his book No Friend But the Mountains -- composed one text message at a time from within the detention centre -- has been recognized by a government from the same country that denied him access and locked him up." -- Guardian "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, No Friend But the Mountains. This book answers that question . . . Boochani is a man of delicate sensibility and fine, sometimes severe, moral judgment but also, in his willingness to lay bare his soul before us, of mighty courage. Boochani tells us that Manus 'is Australia itself.' This is not an empty declamation. As Richard Flanagan rightly insists, No Friend But the Mountains is an Australian book, possibly the most consequential to be published for many years. I would like to believe (but I'm afraid I don't) that the nation will learn from this book, experience shame, and take action." -- Sydney Morning Herald "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 Australia "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 Magazine, STARRED REVIEW "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." --Australian Financial Review Magazine "Behrouz Boochani has written a book which is as powerful as it is poetic and moving. He describes his experience of living in a refugee prison with profound insight and intelligence." -- Queensland Reviewers Collective "A chant, a cry from the heart, a lament, fuelled by a fierce urgency, written with the lyricism of a poet, the literary skills of a novelist, and the profound insights of an astute observer of human behaviour and the ruthless politics of a cruel and unjust imprisonment." -- Arnold Zable, author of the award-winning Jewels and Ashes and Cafe Scheherazade

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Synopsis"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 In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian 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 of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary prize, No Friend But the Mountains is an extraordinary account -- one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world., Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani's account of his detainment on Australia's notorious Manus Island prison., Winner of Australia's richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani's account of his detainment on Australia's notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian 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 of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend but the Mountains is an extraordinary account -- one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. "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

LC Classification NumberHV640.5.K87B6613