by Malika Oufkir, Michèle Fitoussi · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447323739
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«La prisionera» is the autobiographical account by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (287 pages, in Spanish).
Malika Oufkir, daughter of a collaborator of King Hassan II, went from a privileged childhood in the Moroccan court to twenty years of captivity with her mother and five siblings, accused of conspiring against the monarch. The work recounts the extreme prison conditions, the mistreatment, the isolation and the daily struggle to hold on to hope.
The book belongs to the Testimonios de mujer collection and is a translation by Juan Vivanco of the original La Prisonnière. This Spanish edition was published in 2002.
For readers interested in memoirs, women's testimonies and the recent history of Morocco.
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.
