Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak of anonymity. She must hide her identity for fear that the religious leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king.įor 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. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore.īut in reality she lives in a gilded cage. Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth.
( Sept.Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia 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. 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. 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. Her father had four wives and a palace for each of them. The pseudonymous Sultana is a niece of King Faisal. 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.
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