Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia Hardcover - 1992
by Jean Sasson
This is the true story of a woman born to unbelievable wealth, who had the courage to challenge the traditions and religious laws that make the life of women in Saudi Arabia a barren, hopeless wasteland. Princess Sultana, who cannot reveal her real name for fear of death, has told her story to the bestselling author of The Rape of Kuwait.
First line
In a land where kings still rule, I am a princess.
From the rear cover
Sultana is a Saudi Arabian, princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country. Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king. For the sake of her daughters, she has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, regardless of their rank. She must hide her identity for fear that the religious leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak of anonymity. She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one until her husband decided to displace her by taking a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends, and her servants. Although they share affection, confidences and an easy camaraderie within the confines of the women's quarters, they also share a history of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "woman's room", a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them. Servants are forced into sexual servitude andseverely beaten if they attempt escape. By speaking out, Sultana risks bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and the heads of her children. In the barren, hopeless wasteland that is the life of Saudi women today, free speech is punishable by death. But by telling her story to a Western writer, Sultana has allowed us to see beyond the veils of this secret society, to the heart of a nation where sex, money, and power reign supreme.
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- Title Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
- Author Jean Sasson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date September 1992
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780688116750 / 0688116752
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.58 x 6.44 x 1.06 in (24.33 x 16.36 x 2.69 cm)
- Reading level 1030
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92007445
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.420
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/1992, Page 106
- Library Journal, 07/01/1992, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 07/06/1992, Page 0
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