In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani sought asylum in Australia but was instead illegally imprisoned in the country's most notorious detention centre on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. Boochani spent nearly five years typing passages of this book one text at a time from a secret mobile phone in prison. They form an incredible story of how escaping political persecution in Iran, he ended up trapped as a stateless person. The Award-winning International Bestseller.