Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir??'s intensely moving account of her twenty years imprisoned in a desert jail in Morocco, was a surprise international bestseller. The second non-fiction title ever selected for the Oprah Book Club, Stolen Lives sold 432,000 copies in hardcover and its debut generated a storm of media. Malika Oufkir was born into extreme privilege as the daughter of the king of Morocco??'s closest aide, and she grew up in the oppulence of the palace as the companion to the princess.& nbsp; But in 1972, her life of luxury came to a crashing halt.& nbsp; Her father was executed for attempting to assassinate the king, and she and her family were imprisoned for two decades in a desert jail. Their escape was spectacular, their freedom hard won.& nbsp; & nbsp; What was it like to return to the world after twenty years of darkness and deprivation? In Freedom, Malika Oufkir writes candidly about her return to civilization: her new life in Paris; discovering love and intimacy at the age of 40; handling an ATM machine; negotiating a grocery store and her impulse to stockpile. In Stolen Lives she wrote longingly of becoming a mother, and of the children she had hoped to have, even as she watched that hope die as she aged. In Freedom, she becomes mother to one of her nieces and ultimately adopts a child in Morocco: a boy she names Adam.Moving, often funny, and full of wisdom and insight, this is sure to take up where Stolen Lives ended: Malika bravely encountering a strange world and emerging triumphant.
"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."
| 出版社 | Miramax |
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| 作者 | Malika Oufkir |