![]() ![]() I can’t say one way or the other, because Sasson has spent time in Saudi Arabia and the fact that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially during the time this book is set in the 1960s-1970s things might have been different from what it is today, not that they are any better. I’ve not read the book, but considering both deal with human rights abuses it is possible some overlap might have happened just by the same subject matter. It was taken to court in the 90s but the judge dismissed the charges of plagiarism and made Adsani pay Sasson’s legal fees. It had been alleged that Jean Sasson copied the story with the help of her publisher from Friederike Monika Adsani who had written a book Cinderella in Arabia or Cinderella in Kuwait and that the publisher passed on the story to Sasson who copied it and used it for her books. ![]() So to get this elephant out of the room…let’s talk about the controversy about this book. ![]()
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