by Malika Oufkir · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253119760
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«L'Étrangère» is the autobiography of Malika Oufkir, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (216 pages, in French).
After the failed 1972 coup d'état, Malika Oufkir lived almost twenty years in confinement with her family. Malika Oufkir recounts the difficult reunion with freedom: moving through Paris, Marrakech, Miami or New York, living with fear and explaining her past to her adopted children. A narrative with humour, sharp observation and rage.
French edition published in 2008 in the Ldp Litterature collection (no. 30972), with a preface by Michèle Fitoussi.
For readers of memoirs and autobiographical testimonies, with an interest in the recent history of Morocco and in survival stories.
Malika Oufkir is a Moroccan writer and former victim of enforced disappearance. She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna.
