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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780385403450
Format: Import
ISBN: 0385403453
Label: MORROW
Manufacturer: MORROW
Number Of Pages: 229
Publication Date: 1992
Publisher: MORROW
Sales Rank: 2170777
Studio: MORROW
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Rating:  - Sultana
Sultana - literally meaning Princess in English. Princess, as per the author, is a true story by a Saudi princess named Sultana for secrecy purposes. There are incidents shared by Sultana that made me feel sad for the women born and brought up in Saudi Arabia.
As per the narrations in the book, even the women from the royal family are living a life that is dependent on the male members of the family. Women can't move around independently, they need a male member to accompany them ... Read More
Rating:  - Unbelievable story
Just read the book. One of my friends (non-muslim) sent it to me. She wanted to know if it's all true. Well, here is my answer, i cannot believe this story was told by a real person, it is more likely that the author during 10 year in Saudi Arabia was collecting her own diary of gossips and prejudices. The author seems to collect everything bad about the country to put it in one book and tells it was told by Saudi, so nobody would say anything bad about her.Sultana seemed to be rebellious only on words ... Read More
Rating: - A life of misery - but is it true?
The author relates the story of Sultana, a Princess of Saudi Arabia, from childhood to adulthood.We see Sultana's life of unimaginable luxury with palaces, servants, and jewels but, alas, being a female she is a prisoner in her home, subject to the iron will of her father and brother.
This is a good story, but I took it as a fictional story.I never once believed that Sultana was real and that she told these stories.I knowthe cruelties described in the book exist, but I think "Sultana" ... Read More
Rating:  - A very good read
I first read this book when I was 16, and I loved it. It is a work of non-fiction, and based on a true story of a Saudi Arabian princess and her family. She opens up about the injustices the women of Saudi suffer (sexism, FGM, favoritism, not having a say in one's marriage, how society turns a blind eye to abusive husbands, and how she supports a woman's right to freedom.) It is an empowering read, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
It also has 2 sequels, "Daughters of Arabia" and "Desert Royal" which ... Read More
Rating: - God bless you, Jean P. Sasson.
I read this book without regard to ethnicity or political belief. I read it as a woman -- as a human being who suffered at the thought of what other women are enduring in the name of "religion" or "culture."
There is no explanation possible to make this palatable to anyone with a conscience. To let it pass without mention is an abomination, akin to denying the Holocaust. There is no justification possible in the eyes of God.
To the perpetrators of this inhumanity to women, I can only ... Read More
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