No Friend But The Mountain

by Behrouz Boochani | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 9781760555382 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingmeganhwing of Preston, Victoria Australia on 11/22/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by wingmeganhwing from Preston, Victoria Australia on Friday, November 22, 2019
Winner - Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2019

Journal Entry 2 by Tsundoku16 at Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Sunday, November 24, 2019
Picked this up at the Kris Kringle brunch today. This has been on my TBR wishlist so looking forward to reading it over the summer break

Journal Entry 3 by Tsundoku16 at North Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Thursday, June 9, 2022
Originally written in Farsi by Kurdish poet, Behrouz Boochani in situations of prolonged duress, torment, and suffering. It was written not on paper or a computer but thumbed on a phone and smuggled out of Manus Island in the form of thousands of text messages.

It starts with his stay in Kendari Island in Indonesia where he has fled to, to escape political persecution. He has run out of money and he nearly drowns twice on two attempts to reach Australia on boat. He then details his detention on Manus Island. Although called a detention centre it is very much run as a prison and the translator notes that should be given a place on the shelf of world prison literature, alongside such diverse works as Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Ray Parkin's Into the smother, Wole Soyinka's The Man Died and Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail.

It is not an easy read as all Behrouz's experiences are devastating.

Journal Entry 4 by Tsundoku16 at Sac-O-Suds Launderette in Castlemaine, Victoria Australia on Thursday, June 9, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (6/9/2022 UTC) at Sac-O-Suds Launderette in Castlemaine, Victoria Australia

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