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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.
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"The strongest sections offer trenchant observations about ordinary life......Elsewhere, she falters. By turns delightful and frustrating. " - Kirkus.
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