No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian (Translator) $17.95 RRP $19.99 (10% off)

Long-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2019 Winner for ABIA General Non-fiction of the Year 2019Winner for ABIA General Non-fiction of the Year 2019 Winner for Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Prize for Literature 2019 'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally and indefinitely detained on Manus Island. This book is the result. Written on a smuggled mobile phone and translated from Farsi, it is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through six years of incarceration and exile that - against all the odds - became an award-winning national bestseller. About the Author 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, 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).