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No Friend but the Mountains

Written by: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian
Narrated by: Richard Flanagan, Mathilda Imlah, Geoffrey Robertson, Janet Galbraith, Thomas Keneally, Sarah Dale, Yumi Stynes, Isobelle Carmody, Benjamin Law, Omid Tofighian
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Publisher's Summary

“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)

In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.

He has been there ever since.

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 of five years of incarceration and exile.

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend but the Mountains is an extraordinary account - one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.
©2019 Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian (P)2019 Anansi Audio
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Beautiful and eyeopening

A tale of two islands

One with pensioners unaware of the reality of the other island

The other island full of life and hope and creativity.

Australia is the name of the first island and Manus is the name of the second.

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