Description |
291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
Series |
Princess trilogy ; bk 1
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Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Sultana, 1956-
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Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions.
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Princesses -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0967673747 |
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9780967673745 |
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