New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman: A
novel of mystery set in the New Afghanistan, by Anne Hart, iUniverse,com, satirical, darkly humorous paperback novel, 468 pages, published Feb. 2002, ISBN: 0-595-21557-2. In the New Afghanistan, powerful female heroines not only solve mysteries, chase the bandits, and clean up the land mines.
The book is satire and fiction. Everything else is coincidental. The book is funny and meant as comedy. What really would happen if a humor-blessed doctor lady took over the
television industry in Afghanistan after the last war to tell
women to turn their hills into posh hotels and children's or
adventure and sports theme parks to attract more world-traveling tourists?
They create the
news and build the tourist and TV industries. When a lady psychiatrist takes over the television airwaves, she makes a splash of humor that brings the country to laughs while taking on a
travel adventure designed to turn the hills into a toy land-like theme park for tourists. Can the Tora Bora hills really be turned into a fun house for tourists and TV talk show personalities who moonlight as semi-retired psychiatrists studying the human condition?
New Afghanistan’s TV Anchorwoman promotes tourism. "Is your world shrinking?" She asks her TV talk show listeners. The westernized, comedic media personality with a winning way uses humor to create peace and joy. A female who uses humorous surprise to get laughts insists, “It takes a psychiatrist to promote the tourist industry here.” In her youth she actually did train in psychiatry before becoming a TV personality world-wide.
After spending many years in America, she returns to her grandparents’ homeland to take over a TV show for women using humor and stand-up comedy as good medicine to put people at ease. Her introduction on television began the same way each shift: “Afghanistan needs tourists. The New Afghanistan’s burgeoning tourist industry eagerly hired me, a psychiatrist and TV anchorwoman, Dr. Khazara to develop image," her dialogue announces.
Spin and buzz the mountain views instead of the land mines and bandits. "I do more than read the news. I create it. In the New Afghanistan, it takes psychiatrists, scientists, and finance majors to uncover stories behind sealed doors,” the protagonist says.
She completed her usual TV anchorwoman stint that day and hopped into her regular unmarked taxi. “Go ahead, stick out, flaunt your differences in public, and let them raise their brows.” The psychiatrist scowled over her thumb to the driver during the long taxi ride. “Only don’t get too cozy outdoors in your tribal language. When you take your culture out of the kitchen and rally it in public, expect scowls and a fist in your face.”
Can this female working media psychiatrist who uses humor to solve problems in Afghanistan, work with the guys, bring home the veggies, fry them up in a pan, and never let you forget you're on camera? Of course...It's easy after the rigor of graduating from medical school with honors.
"So you’re a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, are you? Funny, you don’t look like John Wayne. What I don't understand," the Pashtun taxi driver shouted, "is what goes through a powerful heroine's mind when she dials a Hazara TV psychiatrist?” Browse the adventure novel, satire, humorous tome of intrigue and women’s night out at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-21557-2.
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