No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee

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The international literary sensation, a devastating true story of survival from illegally imprisoned refugee behrouz boochani, written on a mobile phone. The award-winning international bestseller 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. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Behrouz 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. No friend but the mountains is both a brave Act of witness and a moving testament to the humanity of all people, in the most extreme of circumstances. 'A brilliant book. No friend but the mountains 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.' - Richard flanagan, Booker Prize winning author of the narrow road to the deep North.

Behrouz Boochani holds a Masters degree in political geography and geopolitics. He is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, writer and filmmaker, founder of the Kurdish-language magazine Weya, and an Honorary Member of PEN International. In 2013, he fled Iran and became a political prisoner of the Australian Government incarcerated in the Manus Regional Processing Centre (Papua New Guinea). Translator Dr Omid Tofighian is a lecturer, researcher and community advocate based at the American University of Cairo and University of Sydney. His work combines philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. He contributes to community arts and cultural projects and works with asylum seekers, refugees and young people from Western Sydney. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles and is the author of Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues (Palgrave, 2016). He has translated a number of