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The shocking true story of a modern Sheherezade, a Moroccan girl who was locked away in an isolated desert jail by King Hassan II for twenty years. 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 favourite little daughter. There she grew up locked away among the royal wives and concubines of the King's harem. After the old king died his successor Hassan II took over the role of her affectionate adoptive father. By the time she was allowed to leave the palace at the age of sixteen, she was 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 beautiful 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 known as a loving surrogate father. The family was kept locked away without any communication with the outside world in increasingly barbaric and inhumane conditions, fighting a daily battle against malnutrition, disease, loneliness and despair. Then, after fifteen years of imprisonment, the last ten years of which they were locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, the public hue and cry created by their escape ensured that they were then submitted to house arrest rather than prison - but it was only in 1996, after her younger sister managed to flee the country, that Malika, robbed of the best years of her life, was allowed to leave Morocco and start a new life in France.
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- PublisherDOUBLEDAY
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0385601638
- ISBN 13 9780385601634
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Paperback. Condition: VG/VG/ND. y 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Doubleday* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Single crease to spine, not to hinge. Some corner creases and marks to front cpver. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some slight colouration to page margins and edges. VG * Illustrations: One block of 8pp. b/w photos at centre.* Pages: 288 pp. text. viii pp. ps. notes, acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- This true story tells of the hardship endured by a Moroccan family incarcerated for 20 years by King Hassan II of Morocco, punished for a crime perpetrated by their father. La Prisonniere topped the French bestseller lists for many weeks, selling well over 100,000 copies. Malika Oufkir was born into a well-connected Moroccan family and when she was five years old she was chosen to be the special companion of Lalla Mina, King Muhammad V's daughter. Malika was taken away from her family and remained confined within the palace at Rabat for 14 years. She then had two years of vague normality before her father, General Oufkir, was implicated in an assassination attempt on Muhammad's successor, King Hassan II. The General was executed and Malika and the rest of her family were slung into a remote desert gaol where they remained for 15 years. Their release was only secured after they tunnelled their way out of the prison and remained at liberty for five days; the resulting furore after their recapture led to the family being transferred to house arrest and it was not until 1996 that the they were able to leave the country.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. FNL, with some shelf wear and light tanning.* Schwartz, Ros 2000-07-06. n. Seller Inventory # 4412
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