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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4.05
based on 1,066 reviews

Moods

challenging: 81%

dark: 69%

sad: 67%

emotional: 56%

informative: 54%

reflective: 54%

tense: 36%

inspiring: 8%

hopeful: 6%

adventurous: 3%

funny: 2%


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34% of readers chose medium
64% of readers chose slow
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