PRINCESS: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE BEHIND THE VEIL IN SAUDI ARABIA by Jean
P. Sasson is a true story based on information given to the writer by a
Saudi Arabian princess. Sultana was born the tenth daughter of a prince
of Saudi Arabia and grew up in a world of luxury. That luxury was
belied, however, by the oppression of women that took place all around
her as Sultana grew up. Sultana would suffer some of this oppression
herself when she was forced into marriage to a man she barely knew
before she was seventeen and when that husband would later tell her he
intended to take a second wife because she could no longer give him
children. Princess is a non-fiction story of the outrage that is forced
upon women throughout Saudi Arabia even today, a story that leaves the
reader praying for change before it is too late for the next generation
of girls growing up in Saudi Arabia.
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