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Year: 2019
winner (Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction) y
No Friend but the Mountains : Writing From Manus Prison
No Friend but the Mountains : The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee
Omid Tofighian
(translator),
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2018
14342605
2018
selected work
prose
'Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains...
'Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island offshore processing centre.
'People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests...
'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.
'Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? ' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2006
winner (Silver : General (Adult Fiction)) y
The Secret River
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
,
2005
Z1194031
2005
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 69 units)
'In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and their children he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand.
'But the colony can turn a convict into a free man. Eight years later Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim a hundred acres for himself.
'Aboriginal people already live on that river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them.
'Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, soon has to make the most difficult choice of his life.
'Inspired by research into her own family history, Kate Grenville vividly creates the reality of settler life, its longings, dangers and dilemmas. The Secret River is a brilliantly written book, a groundbreaking story about identity, belonging and ownership.' (From the publisher's website.)
