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Author Sasson, Jean P.

Title Princess : a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia / Jean Sasson.

Publication Info. New York : Morrow, [1992]
©1992

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.42 SA793.7    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  305.42 SAS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  305.42 SASSON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B SULTANA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.4209538 SA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary American-born Sasson recounts the life story of a Saudi princess she met while living in Saudi Arabia, offering a glimpse of the appalling conditions endured by even privileged women in the Middle East.
Contents Introduction -- Childhood -- Family -- My sister Sara -- Divorce -- Ali -- The trip -- Journey's end -- Girlfriends -- Foreign women -- Huda -- Kareem -- The wedding -- Married life -- Birth -- Dark secrets -- Death of a king -- The woman's room -- Second wife -- Escape -- The great white hope.
Subject Sultana, 1956-
Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions.
Saudi Arabia -- Princes and princesses -- Biography.
ISBN 0688116752 acidfree paper $20.00
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