First serial to Cosmopolitan Literary Guild alternate author tour. An appalling glimpse of the conditions endured by even such privileged women as the attractive, well-born Sultana. In Sasson's telling, Sultana's story is a fast-paced, enthralling drama, rich in detail about the daily lives of the Saudi royals and packed with vivid personal sketches of the ruling clan and sharp opinions about the sexual mores, politics, religion and culture of this still-feudal nation. Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. Yet when, after bearing five children, she could bear no more, he prepared to take another wife Sultana fought this, as she had fought every other injustice and indignity her culture inflicted on her. Read 2795 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Sultana, the family's rebel, had the luck to marry a man who valued her spirit and intelligence. One sister, wed to a 62-year-old sexual sadist, attempted suicide.

Her older sister was circumcised before a ``modern'' doctor intervened on behalf of Sultana and her eight other sisters their father treated all 10 as breeding animals, useless until old enough to be married off and to produce sons for their husbands. Sasson (born 1950, 1 Troy, Alabama, United States) is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East. Her father had four wives and a palace for each of them. Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia.

The pseudonymous Sultana is a niece of King Faisal. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. In this consistently gripping work, the American-born Sasson ( The Rape of Kuwait ) recounts the life story of a Saudi princess she met while living in Saudi Arabia. A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury.

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