Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi [in Christian Science Monitor]
19 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Memoir, Moroccan, Nonfiction, Repost
Never mind its faults. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi is going to sell well. It's already a runaway bestseller in France, where it debuted in 1999 as...
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