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 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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4.07

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