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 83%
sad 72%
dark 67%
emotional 56%
informative 54%
reflective 53%
tense 30%
inspiring 9%
adventurous 2%
funny 1%
hopeful 1%

Pace

slow 62%
medium 36%
fast 1%

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4.07

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