Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege.
Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996.
A heartrending account in the face of extreme deprivation and the courage with which one family faced its fate, Stolen Lives is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to freedom.

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Oufkir, Malika

Fitoussi, Michèle

Schwartz, Ros (translator)

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Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club (Paperback))

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Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir's intensely moving account of her twenty years imprisoned in a desert jail in Morocco, was a surprise international best seller and the second non-fiction title ever selected for Oprah's Book Club.
In her highly anticipated follow-up, Malika reflects on the life she lived before and during incarceration and how dramatically the world had changed when she emerged. Malika Oufkir was born into extreme privilege as the daughter of the king of Morocco's closest aide, and she grew up in the palace as companion to the Moroccan princess. But in 1972, her life of luxury came to a crashing halt.Her father was executed for attempting to assassinate the king, and she and her family were locked away for two decades. After a remarkable escape, Malika and her family returned to the world theyd left behind, only to find it transformed.
Living for the first time as an adult, Malika writes candidly about adjusting to the world we take for granted, from negotiating ATMs to the excesses of shopping malls, to falling in love and sex. In Stolen Lives, Malika mourned the children she was not having as she wasted away in prison. When she is finally free, motherhood becomes crucial to Malika's ability to fully live her life: she adopts first her niece, then a baby boy from Morocco. Full of insight and piercing observations, as well as humor, Freedom is as masterful and thoughtprovoking as the original.

Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

Malika Oufkirs profound and heartbreaking memoir, Stolen Lives, a New York Times best seller, told of her familys twenty-year imprisonment in a Moroccan desert jail and their eventual breath-taking escape. It became a huge national best seller and was only the second non-fiction title ever selected for Oprahs Book Club. In her new book, Freedom, Oufkir reveals what it is like to return to the world after twenty years of darkness. Living life for the first time as an adult woman, she writes candidly on her adjustment to the modern worldfrom using an ATM and shopping in a supermarket, to understanding the concept of freedom itself in a world with so many strange restrictions; falling in love; and having an intimate relationship with a man for the first time. Moving, funny, and full of wisdom and insight, Freedom is a sequel every bit as masterful as the originaland one that Oufkirs devoted fans will embrace.

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail [hardcover] Oufkir, Malika,Fitoussi, Michele [Sep 01, 2001] …

Wheeler Pub Inc

Toute sa vie, Malika Oufkir a été prisonnière. C'est à l'âge de cinq ans que la fille aînée du général Oufkir est adoptée par Mohammed V et élevée dans le Palais du Roi, à Rabat, dont elle ne sort que rarement. Défilent devant les yeux d'une princesse espiègle et effrayée les courtisanes du Harem, les esclaves du Feu, les gouvernantes à l'accent allemand. A sa sortie du palais, la fière descendante des Berbères compte parmi les héritières les plus courtisées du Royaume. La tentative de coup d'Etat du 16 août 1972 contre Hassan II en décide autrement. Ce sera la mort pour le général Oufkir, et la prison pour sa femme Fatéma, et ses six enfants dont le plus jeune n'a pas trois ans ! Des murailles du désert aux cellules envahies par les scorpions, Malika élève ses frères et soeurs et refuse qu'on les laisse mourir. Ils resteront enfermés vingt ans dans des conditions inhumaines. Schéhérazade moderne, Malika n'a rien oublié : l'angoisse des nuits solitaires, la faim et la soif, les frustrations d'une femme privée d'amour, mais aussi l'humour d'une famille à qui l'on veut infliger le pire des châtiments, l'oubli. Elle évoque aussi cette incroyable évasion à mains nues et l'errance clandestine de Casablanca à Tanger, de Tanger à Paris. Aujourd'hui dans une fresque qui se lit comme un conte des Mille et Une Nuits, Malika la prisonnière devient enfin une femme libre. C'est un témoignage bouleversant qu'elle a confie à Michèle Fitoussi. 
Malika Oufkir est née le 2 avril 1953 au Maroc, Michèle Fatoussi est l'auteur chez Grasset de deux romans et d'un recueil de nouvelles.

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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club (Paperback))

Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

La Prisonniere

L'étrangère (French Edition)