No friend but the mountains : writing fom Manus Prison / Behrouz Boochani ; translated by Omid Tofighian.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Persian Publisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Picador editionDescription: xxxvi, 374 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760784942Subject(s): Boochani, Behrouz | Manus Island Regional Offshore Processing Centre | Refugees, Kurdish -- Biography | Refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Political refugees -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Illegal aliens -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Alien detention centers -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island | Detention of persons -- Papua New Guinea -- Manus Island | Prisoners' writings, Persian -- Translations into English | Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | AustralianGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 325.21099581 Awards: Winner Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019. | Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2019. | Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction Book Award 2019. | Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Special Award 2019. | Winner National Biography Award / 2019. | Long-listed Colin Roderick Literary Award / 2019.Summary: "In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally and indefinitely detained on Manus Island. This book is the result. Written on a smuggled mobile phone and translated from Farsi, it is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through six years of incarceration and exile that - against all the odds - became an award-winning national bestseller.
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"Includes a foreword by Richard Flanagan, plus translator's note and essay"-- back cover.
"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." Richard Flanagan -- front cover.
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally and indefinitely detained on Manus Island. This book is the result. Written on a smuggled mobile phone and translated from Farsi, it is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through six years of incarceration and exile that - against all the odds - became an award-winning national bestseller.
Translated into English from Farsi.
Winner Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019.
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2019.
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction Book Award 2019.
Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Special Award 2019.
Winner National Biography Award / 2019.
Long-listed Colin Roderick Literary Award / 2019.
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