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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.

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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.
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"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 date2007
  • ISBN 10 1401309208
  • ISBN 13 9781401309206
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages256
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