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    No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

    Written by Behrouz Boochani

    Narrated by Richard Flanagan, Mathilda Imlah, Benjamin Law and

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    In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This audiobook 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 firsthand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.

    At the time of recording, Behrouz was still being held on Manus Island. Normally the author is given the opportunity to read his own words but because he was not able to participate, a chorus of advocates have come together to speak not so much for Behrouz but with him.

    Narrated by Richard Flanagan, Mathilda Imlah, Geoffrey Robertson, Janet Galbraith, Thomas Keneally, Sarah Dale, Yumi Stynes, Isobelle Carmody, Benjamin Law and Omid Tofighian.

    Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains....People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests....Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press Inc Audio
    Release dateJul 29, 2019
    ISBN9781487008000
    Author

    Behrouz Boochani

    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). His memoir, No Friend but the Mountains, won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature, has been published in 18 languages, and has been adapted for screen, with the trailer available here: https://www.behrouzthefilm.com/trailer

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