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    Making Soapies in Kabul
    Making Soapies in Kabul
    Hot days, crazy nights and dangerous liaisons in a war zone
    On an impulse, Trudi - Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly popular soapie.<br/><br/>Trudi's staff are hugely inexperienced. They include Habib, the Pashto poet who wants to insert allegorical scenes involving fighting ants into the scripts; Rashid, the Dari manager, who spends all day surreptitiously watching uncensored Hindi music videos; and the Pakistani actresses who cross the border to Jalalabad ('Jallywood') to perform roles that no Afghan actresses can take on without bringing shame to their families.<br/><br/>Trudi lives among the expat community - the media, the burnt - out army types now working as security contractors, the 'Do - Gooders', the diplomats - in dubious guest houses like The Dirty Diana. This is 'Ka - bubble', where the reckless encounters with each other, with alcohol and of course with recreational drugs are as dangerous as the city's streets.<br/><br/>Here are crazy people living crazy lives, and locals trying to survive as best they can against the backdrop of war.
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    Book Author
    Trudi-Ann Tierney
    Genre Biography & Autobiography , Travel
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9781459677173
    Publisher
    Allen & Unwin Book Publishers
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    Up to 20 business days (?)

    Publication Date
    13-Mar-2014

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