Title : The Stranger - Malika Oufkir - book
Summary :
Who does not remember the incredible destiny of Malika Oufkir? In The Prisoner, like Scheherazade weaving her stories, Malika recounted the fate of a child adopted by Mohammed V, then raised as a princess at the court of the monarch Hassan II, within the high walls of the Palace. She was a prisoner hidden from view, a victim of Morocco's ancestral traditions, but pampered by her own people. Following a coup d'état in 1972 in which her biological father, General Oufkir, attempted to overthrow her adoptive father, the King of Morocco, her entire family, mother, brothers, and sisters, were imprisoned for nearly twenty years. Malika then rose to the rank of a heroine of ancient tragedy; a plot where nothing was missing, neither the murder, the revenge, the filthy prison deep in the desert, the cruelty of punishing the children in place of the father, nor the miraculous outcome: a frantic escape across Morocco after digging a tunnel with her bare hands! Malika survived. In 1999, she wrote an extraordinary testimony with Michèle Fitoussi: but what was the price to pay? How can you walk the streets of Paris, Marrakech, Miami or New York, when you're still scared? Why consume if you don't have the essentials? What sensations does a woman's body experience when deprived of desire for twenty years? How can you be a mother when you can no longer give birth? How can you confront Oprah Winfrey during her famous television show, on which Malika was the only foreign author ever invited? What can we say about her mutilated past to Nawel and Adam, her adopted children? Freedom. Or bitter freedom? The Stranger is the true story of a Martian woman who returned to Earth. If you prefer the nickname her friends gave her, the return of Hibernata. Malika Oufkir has a great sense of humor, a keen sense of observation, a fierce temper, and that "grain of madness" that definitely gives her a special place.
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EAN : 9782246709015
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