No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian

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Picador
06 August 2018

Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; True stories

• WINNER - NSW PREMIER'S AWARD 2019

• WINNER - VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE & FOR NON-FICTION 2019

• WINNER - ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains...

Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island offshore processing centre. 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 firsthand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.

In his homeland, people would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?

"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

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By: Behrouz Boochani
Translated by: Omid Tofighian
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9781760555382
ISBN 10: 176055538X
Publication Date: 06 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Short-listed for ABIA General Non-fiction of the Year 2019
Short-listed for National Biography Award 2019
Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2019
Winner of ABIA General Non-fiction of the Year 2019
Winner of National Biography Award 2019
Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2019
Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Prize for Literature 2019