Prison narrative: Systematic torture 2

2019-06-13T23:27:27+00:00August 25th, 2018|

Behrouz Boochani's memoir of his arrival at Christmas Island as an asylum seeker, and subsequent indefinite incarceration on Manus Island, is in itself a miracle of survival and of testimony. To tell the unthinkable in impossible circumstances is an extraordinary act of courage and truth-telling. This is [...]

Prison narrative: Systematic torture: Part 1

2019-06-13T23:28:30+00:00August 24th, 2018|

  This book is the hardest that I have committed to read and review. Behrouz Boochani's memoir of his six-year incarceration on Manus Island, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, begins just before the Australian (Labor) government decided to resume offshore processing of asylum [...]

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