Freedom: THE STORY OF MY SECOND LIFE - Softcover
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.
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About the Author:
Malika Oufkir, born in 1953, lives in Florida with her husband and children. Her first book was published in 2001 and was an international bestseller.
Review:
Malika Oufkir, born in 1953, lives in Florida with her husband and children. Her first book was published in 2001 and was an international bestseller.
"It's refreshing when that rare memoir comes along, one with a truly compelling, harrowing narrative that also ventures beyond the writer's life to explore a greater context. Freedom by Moroccan writer Malika Oufkir is such a book. Considering the volatile and vulnerable era in which we now live, Oufkir's story of her years during (and after) her 24-year incarceration in a Moroccan prison raises provocative political questions. Above all, it's a tale of deprivation and survival in their rawest forms...With Freedom, Oufkir continues her engrossing, courageous journey...Never self-congratulatory, the life lessons she imparts with candor-about privilege, generosity, understanding and gratitude-might be forgettable were they not so hard-won. It's rare that someone's experiences prove genuinely inspiring, but Oufkir's book does. It might just lead you to change someone else's life for the better or, at the very least, your own."
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- PublisherMiramax
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1401308317
- ISBN 13 9781401308315
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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