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Freedom, only freedom, the prison writings of Behrouz Boochani, Behrouz Boochani ; translated and edited by Omid Tofighian and Moones Mansoub ; foreword by Tara June Winch

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

portraitsplatesmapsillustrations

index present

non fiction

Freedom, only freedom

bibliography

Behrouz Boochani ; translated and edited by Omid Tofighian and Moones Mansoub ; foreword by Tara June Winch

the prison writings of Behrouz Boochani

Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but the Mountains. In the articles, essays, and poems he wrote while detained, he emerged as both a tenacious campaigner and activist, as well as a deeply humane voice which reflects the indignity and plight of the many thousands of detained migrants across the world. In this book Boochani's collected writings are combined with essays from experts on migration, refugee rights, politics, and literature. Together, they provide a moving, creative and challenging account of not only one writer's harrowing experience and inspiring resilience, but the wider structures of violence which hold thousands of human beings in a state of misery in migrant camps throughout Western nation-states and beyond