Freedom The Story of My Second Life

"In Freedom, Malika Oufkir reflects on her life before her cruel incarceration and the dramatic change in the world she discovered when she emerged." "Malika's childhood was a storybook fantasy - reared in the palace alongside the king's daughter, she enjoyed unfathomable luxury and privilege. This came at the sole discretion of the monarch, whose power was absolute and whose word was law. In 1972, the nightmare began: her father was summarily executed for attempting to assassinate the despot, and she was locked away with her mother and siblings, who ranged in age from nineteen to three years old." "After a harrowing escape, Malika and her family returned to reclaim their lost lives, only to find the world almost unrecognizable. Following more years of house arrest, surveillance, and harassment, Malika joined several of her siblings in Paris, to make a new start with her beloved husband Eric. She writes candidly, with humor and accuracy, about the world we take for granted - the excesses of shopping malls and the gluttony of our food-fetishizing culture; the machinations of everyday bureaucracy; the flavor-of-the-month aspects of celebrity, including her own. Initially, every action was fraught for her; from navigating an ATM to asking directions of a policeman, from ordering in a restaurant to falling in love. But she comes to appreciate her own strengths."--BOOK JACKET.Oufkir, Malika is the author of 'Freedom The Story of My Second Life', published 2006 under ISBN 9781401352066 and ISBN 1401352065.