(Meta)Physical Homelessness In Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But The Mountains

Abstract Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer who was detained on Manus Island, in northern Papua New Guinea, for more than four years. During these years of detention, he wrote book WhatsApp messages his phone: No Friend but the Mountains (2018). Although understandably sold as non-fiction and therefore marketed mostly testimony, Boochani’s interweaving different genres renders resistant to classification, just its author difficult define ‘categorize’ our world nation states borders. This article explores an important nucleus book, motif that runs through narrative, both explicitly figuratively: home homelessness. I argue loss normatively performatively repeated Prison, presenting prisoners with form discipline violence physical metaphysical. After losing right their place, detainees gradually lose ability conceive includes homeless.