Mirage / Soheir Khashoggi.
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TextPublisher: 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 : A Forge Book, c1996Edition: First editionDescription: 351 pages : 24 cm. illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0312858353 [hardbound]Subject(s): Married women -- Fiction | Arab Americans -- Fiction | Saudi Arabia -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction.DDC classification: Summary: Summary: The engrossing story of Amira, a young girl from a wealthy and powerful family. Mirage takes you behind the veil of secrecy to expose the real lives of women in today's harems.
Amira expects to be sold into marriage and to never step outside her house without being swathed in black veils and accompanied by an escort. But she's not prepared for the savagery of the husband she first meets on her wedding night, or the increasingly oppressive control he is allowed to exert over her. Finally, in a daring attempt to save her own life and sanity, she escapes with her baby to start a new life in the United States. But her past- and her powerful husband- won't give her up easily.
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Summary: The engrossing story of Amira, a young girl from a wealthy and powerful family. Mirage takes you behind the veil of secrecy to expose the real lives of women in today's harems.
Amira expects to be sold into marriage and to never step outside her house without being swathed in black veils and accompanied by an escort. But she's not prepared for the savagery of the husband she first meets on her wedding night, or the increasingly oppressive control he is allowed to exert over her. Finally, in a daring attempt to save her own life and sanity, she escapes with her baby to start a new life in the United States. But her past- and her powerful husband- won't give her up easily.
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