No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anansi International
Published: 06/04/2019
ISBN: 9781487006839
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Booklist 05/15/2019 pg. 4
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 79
Foreword 06/26/2019