{"product_id":"no-friend-but-the-mountains-writing-from-manus-prison-9781487006839","title":"No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of Australia's richest literary award, \u003ci\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains \u003c\/i\u003eis Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani's account of his detainment on Australia's notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, \u003ci\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary account -- one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.\" -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTofighian, Omid:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eOMID TOFIGHIAN is a translator, lecturer, researcher, and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in citizen media, rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement, and discrimination. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Leiden University and graduated with a combined Honours degree in philosophy and studies in religion at the University of Sydney. His current roles include Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo; Honorary Research Associate for the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney; faculty at Iran Academia; and campaign manager for Why Is My Curriculum White? -- Australasia. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles, is author of \u003cem\u003eMyth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoochani, Behrouz:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBEHROUZ BOOCHANI is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, and filmmaker. His memoir, \u003cem\u003eNo Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary prize, and the Victoria Premier's Prize for Nonfiction. Boochani was a writer for the Kurdish-language magazine \u003cem\u003eWerya\u003c\/em\u003e; is an Honorary Member of PEN International; was the winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism; and he is non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC), University of Sydney. He publishes regularly with the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and his writing also features in the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Paper\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Matilda\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film \u003cem\u003eChauka, Please Tell Us the Time\u003c\/em\u003e, and collaborator on Nazanin Sahamizadeh's play \u003cem\u003eManus\u003c\/em\u003e. He graduated from Tarbiat Moallem University and Tarbiat Modares University, both in Tehran; and he holds a Master's degree in political science, political geography, and geopolitics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anansi International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645566161170,"sku":"9781487006839","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f1a3fe2b-270e-495c-b3db-248edbab25cc.jpg?v=1733155391","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-writing-from-manus-prison-9781487006839","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}