La Prisonniere by Malina Oufkir
Malika Oufkir has been a prisoner for virtually her whole life. Born into a proud Berber family in 1953, the eldest daughter of the King of Morocco's closest aide, Malika was adopted by Mohammed V as a royal ward and brought to live in the palace at Rabat to be a companion to his daughter. There she grew up locked away among the royal wives and concubines of the King's harem, and when the old king died his successor Hassan II took over the role of her affectionate adoptive father. At sixteen she was allowed to leave the palace having become one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, and tasted a couple of years of heady freedom amongst the international jetset. But in 1972, when Malika was eighteen, her father, General Oufkir, was arrested after an attempt to assassinate the king, and summarily executed. Malika, her mother and her five brothers and sisters - the youngest of whom was barely three years old - were thrown into a remote desert jail by the man Malika had only ever known as a loving surrogate father. The family was kept imprisoned with no communication with the outside world in increasingly barbaric and inhumane conditions, fighting a daily battle against ma
Now 46 years old, Malika Oufkir lives in Paris with her French architect husband. Michele Fitoussi is of Tunisian descent, and is the author of several novels as well as the literary editor of French Elle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385601634 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385601638 |
| Title | La Prisonniere |
| Author | Malina Oufkir |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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