| ISBN |
9780655613787 |
| Name |
Boochani, Behrouz author. |
| Title |
No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison / Behrouz Boochani ; read by a full cast ; translated by Omid Tofighian. |
| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Published |
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2019] |
| ℗2019 |
| Description |
11 audio discs (CD) (13 hr., 1 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
| Performers |
Read by a full cast. |
| 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? |
| Language note |
Translated from the Farsi. |
| Awards note |
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019. |
| Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction Book Award 2019. |
| Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2019. |
| Subjects |
Boochani, Behrouz -- Imprisonment |
| Manus Island Regional Offshore Processing Centre |
| Prisoners' writings, Persian -- Translations into English |
| Political refugees -- Australia -- Biography |
| Journalists -- Iran -- Biography |
| Stateless persons -- Papua New Guinea |
| Journalists, Kurdish -- Biography |
| Detention of persons -- Australia |
| Alien detention centers -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island |
| Detention of persons -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island |
| Refugees, Kurdish -- Biography |
| Political refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes |
| Alien detention centers -- Corrupt practices -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island |
| Illegal aliens -- Australia -- Anecdotes |
| Refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes |
| Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy |
| Genre |
Autobiographies |
| Audiobooks |
| Other Names |
Tofighian, Omid translator. |
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