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)

416 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard FlanaganIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refu...

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Moods

challenging 81%
sad 77%
dark 60%
informative 56%
reflective 56%
emotional 52%
tense 31%
inspiring 10%
adventurous 2%
funny 2%
hopeful 2%

Pace

slow 59%
medium 40%

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