Stolen Lives

Wow! What a book.

Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi is one of the few books that after reading the first page shocks me and makes an imaginary voice in my head say “don’t stop! CONTINUE!” This amazing preface tells a little bit of the main character, Malika Oufkir, and gives a reader a clue of what the book will be about.

Michele Fitoussi was first shock when getting to know her best friend Malika. Only knowing the fact that she was kidnapped for two decades makes me sick. Malika has a lot of problems, “whom do you love, whom do you hate, when your own father attempts to assassinate your adoptive father?”(4) this question shocked me. Just the fact of living with adoptive parents is hard, imagine how hard it should be if you know your real father tried to kill him? Just by this quote I could infer her miserable life full of problems and misunderstandings.

I feel identified with Fitoussi, “I was perturbed by this woman. At the same time, she intimidated me,” (2) couple times in my life I’ve been in this positon. Being close to a person that has passed through hard problems in life and knowing through all the pain they’ve passed through, intimidates me. What to do? What to say? How to say it? This are all the questions that pass through my mind. I feel confused and a bunch of questions continue to go over my head.

 I would of done the same things she did, talk to Malika, “General Oufkir’s eldest daughter,”(1) her intrigue of knowing all the story is obvious. Just thinking in being in Malika’s shoes makes me feel shiver. All the trouble that she had passed through and all the pain she had felt makes me question even more. And here is when I don’t want to stop reading.

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My biggest fear in life is being kidnapped, this is the main reason I choose this book. Only by reading the title Stolen Lives, Twenty Years in a Desert Jail I could imagine what the book was going to be about. Someone had stolen the main character life by being in a desert jail. This is a genre that I love. And nothing better than reading a good book were you feel indentified with the characters and genre. I look forward to know more about Malika’s life and all the things she passed through, because being in jail for two centuries must have a lot to tell.