La Prisonniere
by:
Malika Oufkir (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553813029 (0553813021)
Publish date: May 17th 2001
Publisher: Corgi
Pages no: 397
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Survival,
Adult,
Politics,
Biography Memoir
I cried from start to finish. It was a terrible story. I mean, terrribe what happened to that family. Could not put it down.
Morocco.Brought up in privilege, Malika, her mother, and her younger siblings were disappeared after their father's failed coup against King Hassan II (also Malika's adoptive father). They spent many years in squalid desert prisons and, after a successful escape that allowed them to contact foreign ...
An absolutely amazing book. I was totally blown away by it. It is fascinating, infuriating, frightening and horrifying. To think that Malika was held captive all together more than twenty years!!! I don't think I could have done what she did. It would have been an incredible work of fiction, but kno...
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