No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus prison / Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian.
Language: English Original language: Persian Publication details: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018.Description: xxxiv, 374 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760555382
- Boochani, Behrouz
- Manus Island Regional Offshore Processing Centre
- Refugees, Kurdish -- Autobiography
- Autobiographies
- Refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Political refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Illegal aliens -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Detention of persons -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island
- Refugees, Kurdish -- Biography
- Alien detention centers -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
- Australian
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- Winner: 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Non-fiction and also the overall Victorian Prize for Literature. 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards - Special Award 2019 Australian Book Industry Award for Non-Fiction 2019 National Biography Award
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 325.21 BOO | Available | 068217 |
"Where 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?"
"Includes a foreword by Richard Flanagan, plus translator's note and essay."
Translated from the Farsi.
Winner:
2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Non-fiction and also the overall Victorian Prize for Literature.
2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards - Special Award
2019 Australian Book Industry Award for Non-Fiction
2019 National Biography Award
