Excellent book. I think it's important to read the Stolen Years first on order to fully appreciate it.
My God, it's another exposition of the Islamic way. This is the second, a follow-up book of Malika Oufkir's travails – her life after her's and her family's desert imprisonment.
Very good, but one should read the first book before reading this one. I found both books to be mesmeriising....
How do you reintegrate into the mainstream after you have been imprisoned for 20 years? That is what Freedom: The Story of My Second Life by Malika Oufkir is about.
This is not quite what I expected it to be. I thought it was going to be more like that old sitcom Third Rock from the Sun (remember the aliens trying to make sense of earth?
Count me among the reviewers who found this book a tough slog. The writing style is much different than that on her first book and, as I have met her and heard her speak, different yet from her own personal style.
After i read "Stolen Lives",which i have recommended to many of my friends, i could not understand why and how this book was written! There were times where the author lost me completely..
One of the few books that I've closed the back cover of and thought, Now that was awful. She has an amazing story.
As one reviewer has commented, this book does not recount a "story" in the sense that one might expect from the word. If Malika Oufkir's first book, "Stolen Lives," was mostly a chronological account of "facts" (as co-author Michèle Fitoussi required), "Freedom" is the retelling of an inward and intimate journey, from victimhood to the strenuous apprenticeship of a self in the "normal" world beyond prison.
Despite the poor writing, Ms. Oufkir's first book about her twenty-year incarceration in a Moroccan jail was worth reading.
I like books of struggle for what I can learn from them. This lady was taken as a young woman and then made to live in the kingdom of an Arab country in apparent luxury although against her will.
A follow-up to Stolen Lives, this book by Malika Oufkir is a memoir in short story like segments. Each chapter starts with a word like "freedom" or "motherhood" and then goes on to explain her relationship to that word in a few pages.
I had read Malika Oufkir's book, "Stolen Lives" several years ago. That book detailed her 24-year stint in Moroccan prison with her family.
I found her memoir, Stolen Lives, so gripping and so fascinating and could barely put it down. This one, I was very disappointed in.
Every now and then I love to read biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. This memoir is a follow up on "Stolen lives" that I have not yet read.
