num_pages: 416
description: Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature and the Prize for Non-Fiction Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019Where 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?
language: English
title: No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia