No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani

No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

Behrouz Boochani with Omid Tofighian (Translator)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional sad slow-paced

416 pages | first published 2018

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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. He has been there ever since. People w...
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Moods

challenging 80%
sad 80%
dark 60%
informative 56%
reflective 56%
emotional 52%
tense 30%
inspiring 10%
adventurous 2%
funny 2%
hopeful 2%

Pace

slow 60%
medium 40%

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