No Friend but the Mountains

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. 

People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests... 

This book 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 six years of incarceration and exile. 

Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? 

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND FOR NON-FICTION 2019 
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S AWARD 2019 
WINNER OF THE ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 
INAUGURAL WINNER OF THE BEHROUZ BOOCHANI AWARD FOR SERVICES TO ANTHROPOLOGY 
FINALIST FOR THE TERZANI PRIZE 2020 
LONGLISTED FOR THE COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD 2019 

• Author: Behrouz Boochani
• Translated by: Omid Tofighian
• ISBN: 9781760555382 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
• Date of Publication: July 2018
• Number of Pages: 416
• Product Dimensions (cm): 15.4 x 23.3 x 3.1