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The Finest Hotel in Kabul - A People's History of Afghanistan

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The Finest Hotel in Kabul - A People's History of Afghanistan

By: Lyse Doucet

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The Finest Hotel in Kabul - A People's History of Afghanistan 9781529151039 Politics & Current Affairs
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Top 3 Sunday Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Award
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Economist Book of the Year 2025

A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan – the first book from one of the world’s leading war correspondents.

'Simply unforgettable' ELIF SHAFAK
'Terrific' THE TIMES
'Incredible' PETER FRANKOPAN
'Powerful and charming' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Utterly compelling' PHILIPPE SANDS
'Masterly' TELEGRAPH
'Ingenious' KAMILA SHAMSIE
'A must-read' SUNDAY TIMES
'Beautiful' RORY STEWART

In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected Afghanistan’s hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the world.

Lyse Doucet first checked into the Inter-Continental on Christmas Eve 1988. In the decades since, she has witnessed a Soviet evacuation, a devastating civil war, the US invasion, and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban, all from within its increasingly battered walls. The Inter-Con has never closed its doors.

Now, she weaves together the experiences of the Afghans who have kept the hotel running to craft a richly immersive history of their country. It is the story of Hazrat, the septuagenarian housekeeper who still holds fast to his Inter-Continental training from the hotel’s 1970s glory days – an era of haute cuisine and high fashion, when Afghanistan was a kingdom and Kabul was the ‘Paris of Central Asia’. Of Abida, who became the first female chef after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. And of Malalai and Sadeq, the twenty-somethings who seized every opportunity offered by two decades of fragile democracy – only to see the Taliban come roaring back in 2021.

Through these intimate portraits of Afghan life, the story of a hotel becomes the story of a people.
Publication Date: 18/09/2025
Number of Pages: 448
Binding: Paper Back
ISBN: 9781529151039
Categories: Non Fiction Politics & Current Affairs March

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