La Prisonniere

Oufkir, Malika Fitoussi, Michele

ISBN 10: 0385601638 / ISBN 13: 9780385601634

Edité par Doubleday, 2000

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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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: La Prisonniere
• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: espagnol
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0385601638
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780385601634
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: y 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
• État de l'article: VG/VG/ND
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Synopsis

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

À propos de l?auteur

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.