I enjoyed reading the book for the 4th time already. I am amazed by this family's strength.
I found this book very interesting, it is actually a chock for me to discover that such cruelty exists especially in a country that i really love; my home land: Morocco. I cried when i read this book, i felt sad for these people who are from the place that i come from, who know my culture, who speak my language.
Oufkir was the eldest daughter of the King of Morocco's closest aide: she was adopted by him and raised to be a companion to his daughter. She lived a life of luxury, but when her father attempted to assassinate the King, she and her siblings and mother were immediately imprisoned in a penal colony - for twenty years of isolation and pain until their escape.
This audio version of the book really held my attention ! It was very well written, and so interesting, due to the precise descriptions of the characters and events.
"Stolen Lives" is about the horror one family is forced to endure in Morocco when they are imprisoned for 20 years and starved nearly to death after their father tries to kill the King. Malika, along with her mother and brothers and sisters live in conditions that seem almost too awful to be real.
While I found the plot of the book to be very engaging, I was disappointed with the writing. This is not a well-written book; perhaps some of the eloquence was lost in translation.
This book was one of the most poorly written books I have read in a long time. I am still struck by the contradicting information given.
I saw an interview with Malika Oufkir on Oprah Winfrey's show and was so taken by her courage, her incredible spiritual strength and the unbelievable horror of her tale, that I felt I had to know more. I found this version to be an inspiring testimony to the human spirit but also an honest account of the terrible toll of this family's ordeal, leaving one brother "a permanent child" in Malika's own words, a brother who found adjusting to a normal, free life nearly impossible and who is still suffering the effects of his imprisonment.
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