No Friend but the Mountains

Writing from Manus Prison

von Behrouz Boochani

416 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." - From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard FlanaganIn 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 first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary prize, 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.

• Reihe: Anansi International
• ISBN: 9781487006839
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2019
• Größe: 226 x 151 mm
• Verlag: House of Anansi Press
• Übersetzung: Omid Tofighian