<p><b>The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia </b></p><p><b>‘A</b><b> powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all observed with an eye that seems to see everything and told in a voice that’s equal to the task.' - Phillip Pullman</b></p><p>In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani sought asylum in Australia but was instead illegally imprisoned in the country’s most notorious detention centre on Manus Island. This book is the result.</p><p>Boochani spent nearly five years typing passages of this book one text at a time from a secret mobile phone in prison. Compiled and translated from Farsi, they form an incredible story of how escaping political persecution in Iran, he ended up trapped as a stateless person. This vivid, gripping portrait of his years of incarceration and exile shines devastating light on the fates of so many people, as borders close around the world.</p><p><i>No Friend but the Mountains </i>is both a brave act of witness and a moving testament to the humanity of all people, in the most extreme of circumstances.</p><p><b>'A</b><b> brilliant book. </b><i><b>No Friend but the Mountains</b></i><b> can rightly take its place on the shelf of world prison literature . . . It is a profound victory for a young poet who showed us all how much words can still matter.' </b><b>- Richard Flanagan, Booker Prize winning author of <i>The Narrow Road to the Deep North</i></b></p>