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No Friend But the Mountains

Writing from Manus Prison

Behrouz Boochani Full Cast Omid Tofighian

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English
Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
01 July 2019
This audio book (11 CDs) is voiced by Omid Tofighian, Isobelle Carmody, Janet Galbraith, Mathilda Imlah, Geoffrey Robertson, Richard Flanagan, Sarah Dale, Thomas Keneally and Yumi Stynes.


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...

No Friend But the Mountains 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?

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Imprint:   Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 134mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   258g
ISBN:   9780655613763
ISBN 10:   0655613765
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   CD-Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' -- Richard Flanagan 'Boochani has produced a literary, journalistic and philosophical tour de force. It may well stand as one of the most important books published in Australia in two decades ...' -- The Saturday Paper '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 'It is an unforgettable account of man's inhumanity to man that reads like something out of Orwell or Kafka, and is aptly described by Tofighian as 'horrific surrealism'. It is clear from Boochani's writing that he is a highly educated and philosophical man; he segues effortlessly between prose and poetry, both equally powerful.' -- The Australian Financial Review '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


  • Winner of Australian Book Industry Award General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019
  • Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award 2019
  • Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Victorian Prize for Literature 2019

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