Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains...<br/><br/>In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since.<br/><br/>People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests...<br/><br/>This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.<br/><br/>Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?<br/><br/>PRAISE FOR NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS<br/><br/>''''A chant, a cry from the heart, a lament, fuelled by a fierce urgency, written with the lyricism of a poet, the literary skills of a novelist, and the profound insights of an astute observer of human behaviour and the ruthless politics of a cruel and unjust imprisonment.'''' Arnold Zable, author of the award-winning Jewels and Ashes and Cafe Scheherazade<br/><br/>''''In the absence of images, turn to this book to fathom what we have done, what we continue to do. It is, put simply, the most extraordinary and important book I have ever read.'''' Good Reading Magazine