"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanaganu003cbru003eu003cpu003eIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eHe has been there ever since.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eThis book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eIt 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. u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eWinner 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.u003c/pu003e
