Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) | Malika Oufkir

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) | Malika Oufkir | Gripping story

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	Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) Malika Oufkir Miramax, 2002 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 249 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Absorbing and real

I found the book exciting and moving. Of course any book can not describe all events in great detail . But what it chooses to describe, it does well in a straightforward approach. The narration is simple and to the point, which is what I like.

Gripping story

This book is one of my favorites because the story really makes you introspective about your own life. I kept thinking about what I was doing when I was her age or her little brothers age and how fortunate I am and have been throughout my 36 years on earth.
Please give this book a read. It is worth it.

True life Grimm horror tale

This is one of the most harrowing stories I have ever read. It is usually the type of true life story that many will say they find hard to believe. But I believe it to the core...some of the details are so horrific that there is no way anyone would even want to make it up. I almost wished that I didn't read it because I don't want to believe that someone who is King of a such a beautiful country would treat children (that he knew and loved) in such a horrific way. In reading the reviews I am not sure if many of the readers are aware that the book was translated from French to English and that translations even under the best of circumstances are very to hard to convey to the reader,i.e. the original intent. Also because Morocco is so close to France, I'm sure that the average French person is very familiar with the political situation in that country which is why the authors did not concentrate on the political aspects of Morocco. Perhaps the writers did not know they were going to write for an international audience, which is often the case. Regardless, this book is the Grimmest fairy tale that you will ever read!

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