"Does that mean I do not exist?" (Princess - Jean P. Sasson)

Member Name: MI9to5

Product:	Princess - Jean P. Sasson
Date:	10/02/08 (889 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Sasson's superbly delicate writing style.

Disadvantages: NONE

Princess is a real-life-story unlike any that I have ever read before. From the moment I opened the cover I was hooked.

From start to finish the book is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and great courage and Jean Sasson truly captures the flavour and reality of life as 'Sultana' the Saudi Princess.

'Sultana's' birth nor death will ever be recorded, for she is a woman. A woman who lives in a society where only men have worth. 'Sultana' lives her life like a prisoner is a gilded cage, she has unlimited funds at her disposal yet she lacks the one thing she desires the most. Freedom. Wherever she is she is totally at the mercy of the men in her life... her father, her brother, her husband.

"If no-one knows of my existence, does that mean I do not exist"

For this reason 'Sultana', despite the high level of risk has chosen to tell her story and through the author Jean Sasson an unvarnished tale of a closed society is brought to light in a sombre book that makes us think about what right we have to keep the oppressed, oppressed.

When I read this book for this first time I was truly moved, it made me laugh and cry but most of all it made me think and it made me feel sorry for those less fortunte than I.

The impact this story will have on you will last forever, as "this is a real-life story you will never forget"

Summary: Stunningly sombre book that opens the door on a closed society.