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This book is the result. Written on a smuggled mobile phone and translated from Farsi, i is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through six years of incarceration and exile that - against all the odds - became an award-winning national bestseller.
"Bears lucid, poetic and devastating witness to the insane barbarity enacted in our name."
Michelle de Kretser
"A poetic, yet harrowing read, and every Australian household should have a copy."
Maxine Beneba Clarke
"A powerful account...made me feel ashamed and outraged. Behrouz's writing is lyrical and poetic, though the horrors he describes are unspeakable."
Sofie Laguna
"A shattering book every Australian should read."
Benjamin Law
"A magnificent writer. To understand the true nature of what it is that we have done, every Australian, beginning with the prime minister, should read Behrouz Boochani's intense, lyrical and psychologically perceptive prose-poetry masterpiece."
The Age
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Way too many mistakes in the story, how can you light a smoke just after the boat has been swamped, just one example.
The translators seem to seem to have taken it upon themselves to interpret the story, either you are writing it or translating it, not both? i know there are problems with the different languages involved, but this was too much add on from the translators.
No idea where or why he was a refugee, way too much rubbish "poetry"
All involved seemed to be trying to prove how much better they were than any one from Australia.
Too much criticism of everyone else, take some responsibility for your own life.
Save your money unless you want to make a donation to a poor excuse for a life.
I doubt that the good reviews and awards ever read this critically, just an excuse to rat on the country that pulled him out of the ocean.
A insight and valuable first hand account into what makes people flee their homes and the cruelty Australia has subjected them too. Every Australian should read it
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