No Friends, Just Mountains: Notes from Manus Island Prison

Besides mountains, do the Kurds have any other friends?

There is an isolated island in the silent ocean. A group of people are imprisoned on the island and cannot contact the world outside the island. They encountered all kinds of suffering, oppression, silence, bullying, and even genocide in their own country, so they fled to other countries to seek help, but were imprisoned on the island. They could not even see the society immediately outside the prison, let alone other places in the world. . They could only see each other and hear each other's stories.

A Kurdish refugee who was imprisoned on a small Pacific island for five years and secretly wrote novels on WhatsApp won Australia's most important literary and non-fiction awards.