From Dr Seuss to All Quiet on the Western Front: 19 books to help you find hope, sense and resistance in difficult times

Writers, activists and politicians on the books they turn to for wisdom and perspective – and to restore their faith in human nature

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Io che ho vissuto il "modello australiano" imitato dai governi europei per confinare le persone

Dopo lo straordinario "Nessun amico se non le montagne”, lo scrittore e giornalista curdo-iraniano Behrouz Boochani torna in libreria con “Libertà, solo libertà” (Add Editore). Sono gli scritti di oltre cinque anni di detenzione sull'isola di Manus, in Papua Nuova Guinea, all'interno di un centro offshore australiano. Un dispositivo, replicato oggi in forme diverse da più parti, che strumentalizza i rifugiati per mantenere il potere

Altreconomia

Look, I found a new limerick in Pete's Rubbish Bin!

*grinding teeth angrily in the shadows*

“An ocean he desperately crossed.
In prison a hero was tossed.
I had no self-doubt.
I swore he’d stay out.
Boochani, you won, and I lost.”

#SeethingSpud #BehrouzBoochani #auspol #limerick #poetry #humour #joke #funny

#BehrouzBoochani in Sydney. Amazing to see it.
Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’

The Kurdish Iranian refugee was always confident he would prove Peter Dutton’s declaration that he ‘wouldn’t be permitted to come to Australia’ wrong

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Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’

The Kurdish Iranian refugee was always confident he would prove Peter Dutton’s declaration that he ‘wouldn’t be permitted to come to Australia’ wrong

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"Australia imprisoned his body, but his soul remained that of a free man. His words have now irrevocably become our words, and our history must henceforth account for his story."

- Richard Flanagan, Vorwort zu "No Friend But The Mountain" von Behrouz Boochani

#AmReading #BehrouzBoochani #ManusIsland #RichardFlanagan

"Behrouz Boochani's revolt took a diffrent form. For the one thing that his jailers could not destroy in Behrouz Boochani was his beliefs in words: their beauty, their necessity, their possibility, their liberating power."

- Richard Flanagan, Vorwort zu "No Friend But The Mountain" von Behrouz Boochani

#AmReading #BehrouzBoochani #ManusIsland #RichardFlanagan

Das Vorwort zum Buch wurde von dem australischen Schriftsteller Richard Flanagan geschrieben.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Flanagan

#AmReading #BehrouzBoochani #ManusIsland #RichardFlanagan

Richard Flanagan – Wikipedia

Ich habe gerade mit "No Friend But The Mountain" von Behrouz Boochani angefangen.

Dieses Buch wurde während seiner illegalen Gefangenenschaft auf Manus Island (Australien) heimlich auf einem Handy getippt und dann per Textnachricht nach draußen "geschmuggelt".

#AmReading #BehrouzBoochani #ManusIsland