Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.
Winner of the Victorian Premier\'s Prize for Literature, Australia\'s richest literary prize, No Friend But the Mountains is an extraordinary account -- one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world..
A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile.
A cry of resistance.
A lyric first-hand account.
It is a voice of witness, an act of survival.
Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi.
This book is the result.
He has been there ever since. -- from the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.
Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man
