Behrouz Boochani - no barátunk just a mountains

Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian Kurdish poet and journalist, approached Australian shores as an asylum seeker in 2013, when, as a result of a newly enacted immigration law, he was stuck for four years at the Australian government's reception center on Manus Island, which later turned out to be illegally operated, and the island after the station was dismantled could not leave him for years. Boochani tapped into a mobile phone and sent details in Farsi to his friends, acquaintances and English translator in the form of text messages and WhatsApp messages. We have no friends, only the mountains is not a simple prison diary: a testimony, a means of survival, a lyrical account, a manifestation of resistance. An extremely powerful piece of writing that mercilessly confronts the reader with the bitter fate of the world's stateless, refugees languishing in captivity.