Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Oufkir, Malika; Fitoussi, Michele - 2001

New York, New York, USA: Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2001. BG1 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps on the top outside paper edges, front and back endpapers, and title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there are library labels on the front and on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Oprah's Book Club. Translated from the French by Michèle Fitoussi. The memoir of a woman, born in 1953, who spent virtually her whole life as a political prisoner in Morocco. She was the eldest daughter of the King of Morocco's closest aide, adopted by the King, and brought up as the companion to his own daughter. In 1972 her father was arrested and executed after an assassination attempt on the King ahs she, along with her five siblings and mother, were imprisoned in a penal colony for fifteen years until she was able to make a daring escape to freedom in 1996. Acknowledgments, 293p.. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.