Fast delivery, great book.
I enjoyed the way the author wrote for the biographer. However, the subject matter was challenging to read about.
Actually bought this book after reading at a friend's home and wanted to finish as the content was so good. Despite all the negatives in the area; this family is very lucky to be able to write about their ordeal.
Unbeleivable! I couldn't put it down.
Very interesting, but the description of excess of wealth got boring. The book is not long, but too repetitive sometimes.
Ok here's the thing I am a middle eastern women, so I have heard lots of horryfying stories women in captivity and how they were treated like animals, their struggle to have freedom, education, jobs etc. ....
This book tells a story of what goes on inside the king harem by an insiders,about holdings of slaves by the king of Morocco in the twenty century, an inside look at another culture that is strange to a person from the western culture.
Malika Oufkir's father was a bad man. As the brutal king's top enforcer and chief of Morocco's internal security, he made a living by crushing Morocco's dissidents with imprisonment, torture and murder.
I read this book for bookclub after hearing from many people how "wonderful" and "inspiring" it was. Now after just having finished it and knowing that I would be discussing it tonight, I was really concerned.
I love that book it was great i have it in Arabic so i buy that copy in English for my friend.
This book touch me so much i every it so much. This book inspire and enlighten me and show me a little of what goes on in other part the world and what women and people have to go through.
I honestly didn't finish this book.When I purchased it, I just knew it would be the type of tale that would leave me horrified and full of indignation at the injustice.
Malika Oufkir is the oldest child of assasinated General Oufkir of Morocco. She spent the earliest years of her life as the adopted daughter of King Muhammad V, adopted to be the companion to his own daughter.
I initially liked this book, but had some reservations. I could not put my finger on it until recently and that's what persuaded me to write this review.
