No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

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<br /><p>In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.</p><p>He has been there ever since.</p><p>This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi.</p> <p>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. </p><p>Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, <em>No Friend But the Mountains</em> is an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.</p>