Volume 49, Number 8 · May 9, 2002
Fairy Tale in Reverse
By Claire Messud
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
by Malika Oufkir, with Michèle Fitoussi, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
Talk Miramax, 293 pp., $14.00 (paper)
'Treason is not inherited, my lord,' Rosalind pleads of her uncle, Duke Frederick, in the opening act of As You Like It, as she tries to persuade him not to banish her the way he did her father. Raised alongside Frederick's daughter Celia, Rosalind is baffled by the sudden imposition of exile. 'Thou art thy father's daughter—there's enough,' is Frederick's only explanation. 'Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.'
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