TY - BOOK AU - Boochani, Behrouz, AU - Tofighian, Omid, AU - Flanagan, Richard, TI - No friend but the mountains: writing from Manus Prison SN - 9781760555382 AV - HV640.5.K87 B44 2018 U1 - 325.210994 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Sydney : PB - Pan Macmillan Australia , KW - Boochani, Behrouz. KW - Refugees, Kurdish KW - Biography KW - Refugees KW - Alien detention centers KW - Papua New Guinea KW - Manus Island KW - Political prisoners KW - Journalists KW - Iran KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Government policy KW - Australia KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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. He has been there ever since. 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 five years of incarceration and exile. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? ER -