Princess : a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia
(2004)
By:
Sasson, Jean P
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
305.42/SASSON,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Atlanta, GA : Windsor-Brooke Books, [2004]
©2004
©2004
DESCRIPTION
291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0967673747, 9780967673745
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Includes index
Childhood -- Family -- My sister Sara - Divorce -- Ali -- Trip -- Journey's end -- Girlfriends -- Foreign women -- Huda -- Kareem -- Wedding -- Married life -- Birth -- Dark secrets -- Death of a king -- Woman's room -- Second wife -- Escape -- Great white hope -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Appendices: Koran on women -- Laws of Saudi Arabia -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Index
A Saudi woman discusses what life is like for women in her country, describing how women are sold into marriage to men five times their age, are treated as their husbands' slaves, and are often murdered for the slightest transgression