When the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington heard that soldiers sent to free Kuwait did not know why they we Jean Sasson was born in a small town in Alabama. The book was an instant best-seller, reaching #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Jean started her writing career in 1991 when she wrote the book, THE RAPE OF KUWAIT. She traveled extensively, visiting 66 countries over the course of 30 years. When given the chance to travel, Sasson accepted a position at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, and lived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 12 years. She also began her book collection at age 15. An avid reader from an early age, she had read all the books in her school library by the time she was 15 years old. ( Sept.Jean Sasson was born in a small town in Alabama. 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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