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Published in USA
Oct 2006
256 pages
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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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.
"The strongest sections offer trenchant observations about ordinary life......Elsewhere, she falters. By turns delightful and frustrating. " - Kirkus.
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