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Freedom : The Story of My Second Life by Malika Oufkir (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIRAMAX Books

ISBN-101401309208

ISBN-139781401309206

eBay Product ID (ePID)60192255

Product Key Features

Book TitleFreedom : the Story of My Second Life

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMalika Oufkir

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsIt'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., Her stories are both amusing and touching, as she takes on romance, ATMs, and faucets that turn on by themselves and copes with panic attacks that she calls 'free-world syndrome' ...Ever charming and gracious, Oufkir is a delight to spend time with.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal365/.45092 B

SynopsisThe acclaimed sequel to the international bestseller, Stolen Lives, telling the story of Oufkir's 24 years in a Moroccan prison., 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.& 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 imprisoned for two decades in a desert jail. Their escape was spectacular, their freedom hard won.& & 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 machiâ‰ 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., The critically acclaimed sequel to the international bestseller, Stolen Lives. Oufkir's story of her years during, and after, her 24 -year incarceration in a Moroccan prison raises painful and political questions. Above all it is a tale of deprivation and survival in their rawest forms. Never self-congratulatory, the life lessons she imparts with candour might be forgettable, were they not so hard-won.