Florence of Arabia : A Novel (Paperback)

from BraveNewBks

This is another book that for me defies easy categorization. It's part political thriller/satire, tackling real issues about fundamentalism and Islam and Middle Eastern politics, especially in the context of feminism. But that the same time it's actually very funny in parts, as though it were a n...

from Clif

In the spirit of Lawrence of Arabia who freed the Arabs, so also Florence of Arabia bravely set out to free the women of the Middle East from gender injustice in an oppressive theocracy. Every sentence in this story is packed with humor, farce, irony, satire, irreverence, mockery, or exaggerated ...

from MitchWagner

Quite good -- not Buckley's best, but quite good. It's a comedy-thriller about Florence, a low-level US State Department bureaucrat who gets ticked off when an Arab woman she befriends comes to a bad end from her husband, and decides to launch a feminist revolution in the Middle East, by starting...

from iftyzaidi

Well its Christopher Buckley so one can expect some eviscerating satire and plenty of laughs (though I didn't think it was anywhere near as funny as [Little Green Men].) The subject matter looks interesting and is initially. Florence Farfarletti of the State department is outraged after the young...