Resource contributed by: Bodies of Power / Power for Bodies with Mumtaz Khan Chopan

Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian, No Friend But The Mountains. Writing from Manus Prison (Sydney: Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018).

https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760780852/

“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?“