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

Awarded Highly Commended in the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearThe Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man`s Six Year Detention in Australia”A 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 PullmanIn 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.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`

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