Description
| Product ID: | 9781529028485 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | No Friend but the Mountains |
| Subtitle: | The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee |
| Authors: | Author: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Australia |
| Description: | The international literary sensation written on a mobile phone from immigration detention, a devastating true story of survival from illegally imprisoned refugee Behrouz Boochani, <p><b>The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia </b><br><br><b>‘A</b><b> powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all observed with an eye that seems to see everything and told in a voice that’s equal to the task.' - Phillip Pullman</b><br><br>In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani sought asylum in Australia but was instead illegally imprisoned in the country’s most notorious detention centre on Manus Island. This book is the result.<br><br>Boochani spent nearly five years typing passages of this book one text at a time from a secret mobile phone in prison. Compiled and translated from Farsi, they form an incredible story of how escaping political persecution in Iran, he ended up trapped as a stateless person. This vivid, gripping portrait of his years of incarceration and exile shines devastating light on the fates of so many people, as borders close around the world.<br><br><i>No Friend but the Mountains </i>is both a brave act of witness and a moving testament to the humanity of all people, in the most extreme of circumstances.<br><br><b>'A</b><b> brilliant book. </b><i><b>No Friend but the Mountains</b></i><b> can rightly take its place on the shelf of world prison literature . . . It is a profound victory for a young poet who showed us all how much words can still matter.' </b><b>- Richard Flanagan, Booker Prize winning author of <i>The Narrow Road to the Deep North</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-05-02 |