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No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (Paperback, 2018)

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Boochani Behrouz. No Friend But The Mountain. Jacket Condition:None Issued. Book Condition:Very Good. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Victorian Prize For Literature 2019.

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WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND FOR NON-FICTION 2019 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. 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 six years of incarceration and exile. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S AWARD 2019 WINNER OF THE ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 INAUGURAL WINNER OF THE BEHROUZ BOOCHANI AWARD FOR SERVICES TO ANTHROPOLOGY FINALIST FOR THE TERZANI PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD 2019 PRAISE FOR NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS 'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' RICHARD FLANAGAN 'The most important Australian book published in 2018.' ROBERT MANNE 'A powerful account ... made me feel ashamed and outraged. Behrouz's writing is lyrical and poetic, though the horrors he describes are unspeakable' SOFIE LAGUNA 'A poetic, yet harrowing read, and every Australian household should have a copy.' MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE 'Bears lucid, poetic and devastating witness to the insane barbarity enacted in our name.' MICHELLE DE KRETSER 'A chant, a cry from the heart, a lament, fuelled by a fierce urgency, written with the lyricism of a poet, the literary skills of a novelist, and the profound insights of an astute observer of human behaviour and the ruthless politics of a cruel and unjust imprisonment.' Arnold Zable, author of the award-winning Jewels and Ashes and Cafe Scheherazade 'A shattering book every Australian should read' Benjamin Law (@mrbenjaminlaw 01/02/2019) 'A magnificent writer. To understand the true nature of what it is that we have done, every Australian, beginning with the prime minister, should read Behrouz Boochani's intense, lyrical and psychologically perceptive prose-poetry masterpiece.' The Age 'He immerses the reader in Manus' everyday horrors: the boredom, frustration, violence, obsession and hunger; the petty bureaucratic bullying and the wholesale nastiness; the tragedies and the soul-destroying hopelessness. Its creation was an almost unimaginable task... will lodge deep in the brain of anyone who reads it.' Herald Sun 'Boochani has defied and defeated the best efforts of Australian governments to deny asylum seekers a face and a voice. And what a voice: poetic yet unsentimental, acerbic yet compassionate, sorrowful but never self-indulgent, reflective and considered even in anger and despair. ... It may well stand as one of the most important books published in Australia in two decades, the period of time during which our refugee policies have hardened into shape - and hardened our hearts in the process.' SATURDAY PAPER 'An essential historical document.' Weekend Australian 'In the absence of images, turn to this book to fathom what we have done, what we continue to do. It is, put simply, the most extraordinary and important book I have ever read.' Good Reading Magazine (starred review) Brilliant writing. Brilliant thinking. Brilliant courage. Professor Marcia Langton AM (@marcialangton 01/02/2019) Not for the faint-hearted, it's a powerful, devastating insight into a situation that's so often seen through a political - not personal - lens. GQ Australia Segues effortlessly between prose and poetry, both equally powerful. Australian Financial Review Behrouz Boochani has written a book which is as powerful as it is poetic and moving. He describes his exp

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
ISBN-13
9781760555382
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Book Title
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Author
Behrouz Boochani
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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233mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
522g

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Behrouz Boochani
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3 out of 5 stars
by julirandal-8Apr 26, 2019
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This book concentrates on one mans emotional journey and views and poetry. The narrative is deliberately kept vague of details, which for me left too many questions and diminished the impact this book could have had. Having said that, Australia should be ashamed of its inhuman immigration processing practices.
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4 out of 5 stars
by colzi_63Jan 20, 2021
Not for the faint of heart.
What an absolutely beautifully written book! The description of this most inhumane circumstance is utterly agonising. I could not read it as it was so upsetting that this could occur on our doorstep but it has. It needs to be this powerful to get the point across and am grateful for a glimpse into this terrifyingly vivid expressive memoir.
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5 out of 5 stars
by persiansilkpavi...Oct 24, 2018
MAGNIFICENT!
A monologue by a rare individual who has caught a glimpse of that jewel which evades capture; which remains hidden from humanity; which leads to a cessation from suffering; in a word - truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
by shanks11945Mar 13, 2019
No Friend but the Mountain
This is a most gut-wrenchingly compelling, creative and emotionally evocative and dynamic account of journeys of hell into hell. Let political leaders in their ivory towers read this and be ashamed of their own cowardice in insisting the nightmare continue.
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