Bibliograph

No friend but the mountains, writing from Manus prison, Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian

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No friend but the mountains, writing from Manus prison, Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

No friend but the mountains

Responsibility statement

Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian

Sub title

writing from Manus prison

Summary

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?

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