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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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 84%
sad 69%
dark 68%
informative 55%
reflective 55%
emotional 54%
tense 32%
inspiring 10%
hopeful 5%
adventurous 2%
funny 2%

Pace

slow 62%
medium 36%
fast 1%

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