Escape from Manus : the untold true story / Jaivet Ealom.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Viking, 2021.Description: 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781761040214 (paperback)
- Ealom, Jaivet
- Ealom, Jaivet
- Manus Island Regional Offshore Processing Centre
- Political refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Autobiographies
- Detention of persons -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island
- Alien detention centers -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island
- Political refugees -- Burma -- Biography
- Political refugees -- Canada -- Biography
- Political refugees -- Government policy -- Australia
- Boat people -- Burma -- Biography
- Boat people -- Australia -- Biography
- Boat people -- Canada -- Biography
- Boat people -- Government policy -- Australia
- Political refugees -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 362.87 EAL | Available | 063077 |
The powerful account of how one man escaped the prison of Manus Island. A true story of bravery and resilience. The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. Instead of receiving refuge, he was transported to Australia's infamous Manus Regional Processing Centre. Blistering hot days spent in shipping containers on the island melted into weeks, then years until, finally, facing either jail in Papua New Guinea or being returned to almost certain death in Myanmar, he took matters into his own hands. Drawing inspiration from the hit show Prison Break, Jaivet meticulously planned his escape. He made it out alive but was stateless, with no ID or passport. While the nightmare of Manus was behind him, his true escape to freedom had only just begun. How Jaivet made it to sanctuary in Canada in a six-month-long odyssey by foot, boat, car and plane, with nothing but his instinct for survival, is miraculous. His story will astonish, anger and inspire you. It will make you reassess what it means to give refuge and redefine what can be achieved by one man determined to beat the odds.