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Sapphira, beautiful and assured, tells in unblushing and sensuous detail of her journey through life, briefly as an innocent young girl in Tunisia, then as one of eleven slave girls in an Arabian sheikh's harem, where her life changes utterly. Shamelessly, she reveals the sheikh's secrets of exotic lovemaking, and writes down all in her journal, her every thought, fear, and pleasure, with pressing frankness.
There is much to learn before she is "called" to her Master. Eunuchs train and instruct her in every facet of the art of pleasing a man.
..."on one hand, I looked forward to knowing these things, yet on the other, I was aghast at the way I had to show myself and the distasteful things I might have to do. It thoroughly unnerved me to realize that I must know a man in these ways--a man I scarcely knew"...
Her description of life in the harem is compelling and moving, recalling a level of lustful debauchery, submission, and decadence unimaginable today, but completely believable in the era in which it is set...and we are like the "fly on the wall" to watch intriguing, romantic, and sometimes wretched events unfold.
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It is unbelievable to me that I have been in his harem for more than a month, and have written the first chapters of my journal for an audience I do not know and cannot picture. Read the first page
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She recalls in lucid, unashamed and unblushing detail her tortuous life as "Sapphira", one of eleven slave girls in the sheikh's service. She guides us, much as we might imagine the sheikh's eunuchs to have guided and instructed her, through an intimate experience both heartwarming and harrowing. HAREM GIRL's depictions of lustful debauchery, decadence and total female submission to the will of a man are hard for us to comprehend in today's world, yet they are entirely believable for the bygone age in which the novel is set.
Sapphira, even after her life-changing immersion in the harem and extensive instruction in the 'art' of pleasing a man, remains "aghast at the way I had to show myself" and appalled by "the distasteful things I might have to do". Nonetheless, she describes for us the secrets of the sheikh's sexy lovemaking and gradually opens up chinks in his cold and indifferent armour. Even the strongest hearts - and perhaps this is one of the novel's most profound messages - are not made of stone and, in time, a man and a woman fall in love and Sapphira crosses the forbidden boundary that she could scarcely have imagined doing at the start of her journey.
At length, years later, her unlawful deceit returns to haunt her and her now-calm life as the sheikh's wife collapses as she is faced by swift and cruel retribution. Like a spider web of innumerable strands, her lifetime is filled with enough highs and lows to fill ten lifetimes, yet HAREM GIRL is still a believable tale, written both skillfully and sensitively.
I bought this book for myself, thoroughly enjoyed it, and then gave it to my lover. It was well received-as were the thanks the book inspired!
If you enjoy sheik/harem girl stories, you will not be disappointed! However, note the sensible warning on the back cover:-"A book recommended for the mature and broad minded-not for teenage daughters." It is quite erotically explicit in parts, but tastefully written, not pornographic.
I was at first a little concerned about the subject matter and whether the author had fallen into that, oh so common, trap of writing pornography as pretence for eroticism. But not in this novel. Saalih has done a masterful job of writing tastefully and titillating about what inevitably has very sexy content and context - life in an Arabian harem - and I have no compunction whatsoever in wholeheartedly recommending this book to mature and sexually experienced readers (and those wanting to become experienced)- but not teenage daughters!
Read it with someone you want to undress!
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