Malika Oufkir

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La Prisonniere - Malika Oufkir La Prisonniere - Malika Oufkir
La Prisonnieretopped the French bestseller lists for many weeks, selling well over 100,000 ... more
copies, but one's initial reaction is that
something must have got lost in the translation.
The style is dour, to say the least, and the
opening chapters contain a catalogue of
unnecessary family information that may have the
reader nodding off. Curiously, though, as the pace
of the action heats up, the deadness of the prose
comes into its own. This is not a story that needs
to be oversold and reads all the better for its
minimalist delivery. The bare bones of the book
are classic derring-do adventure, and Hollywood
almost certainly has its eyes on the film
rights--complete with American cast.Malika Oufkir
was born into a well-connected Moroccan family and
when she was five years old she was chosen to be
the special companion of Lalla Mina, King Muhammad
V's daughter. Malika was taken away from her
family and remained confined within the palace at
Rabat for 14 years. She then had two years of
vague normality before her father, General Oufkir,
was implicated in an assassination attempt on
Muhammad's successor, King Hassan II. The General
was executed and Malika and the rest of her family
were slung into a remote desert gaol where they
remained for 15 years. Their release was only
secured after they tunnelled their way out of the
prison and remained at liberty for five days. The
resulting furore after their recapture led to the
family being transferred to house arrest and it
was not until 1996 that the they were able to
leave the country.If the action drives the
narrative, it is the clashes between
Middle-Eastern and Western culture that are the
most telling. Even in the 1960s, it was de rigueur
for the King to have a harem full of concubines,
and throughout the book one senses the tension
between the materialistic, hedonistic indulgence
of the ruling elite and their conformity to Muslim
culture. Oufkir is a keen observer of her own
injustices, but is rather slower on the uptake
when it comes to the wider injustices of a
despotic regime. --John Crace
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Freedom: The Story of My Second Life - Malika Oufkir Freedom: The Story of My Second Life - Malika Oufkir
Pages: 256, Hardcover, Miramax Books
£ 12.06

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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) - Malika Oufkir Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) - Malika Oufkir
Pages: 304, Edition: Reprint, Paperback, Hyperion Books
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Malika Oufkir

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Type: Writer's corner

Genre: Authors

Author: Malika Oufkir

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1 Similar Review of Stolen Lives: Twenty years in a Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi
The sins of the father
Review of Stolen Lives: Twenty years in a Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi by mystikchick17

Advantages: Tragic yet inspirational story of survival
Disadvantages: none

...We’ve all heard the saying that the sins of the father shall be visited upon his son. If, however, you were General Oufkir, a prominent aide to King Hassan II of Morocco, that saying would have to stretch to cover your 3-year-old son, 4 daughters, wife, and a cousin-in-law. Why is your family being made to suffer in this manner? Because you participated in a failed coup against the king in a country where the monarch is believed to have a divine right to rule. You are executed for your role in the plot, but your family members are rounded up and herded off to a desert jail for the next 20 years, while the government waits for their memories to fade from public consciousness and for them to wither away and die, forgotten. This is the true story of the family of General Oufkir, as told through his eldest child and daughter... Read review

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