The Finest Hotel in Kabul
A People’s History of Afghanistan
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Date of Publication 18 September 2025
- ISBN 9781529151022
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 240x156x40 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English 700
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A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan from the one of the worldâÂÂs leading war correspondents.
'Simply unforgettable' ELIF SHAFAK
'Incredible' PETER FRANKOPAN
'Utterly compelling' PHILIPPE SANDS
'Ingenious' KAMILA SHAMSIE
'Beautiful' RORY STEWART
In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanâÂÂs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the world.
Lyse Doucet â now the BBCâÂÂs Chief International Correspondent, then a young reporter on her inaugural trip to Afghanistan â first checked into the Inter-Continental in 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 hotelâÂÂs 1970s glory days â an era of haute cuisine and high fashion, when Afghanistan was a kingdom and Kabul was the âÂÂParis of Central AsiaâÂÂ. 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 â only to see the Taliban come roaring back in 2021.
Through these intimate portraits of Kabul life, the story of a hotel becomes the story of a people.
'A story of a country and a people, told with knowledge, insight and tenderness . . A testament to Lyse Doucet's humanity as well as her journalistic eye.' MISHAL HUSAIN
'The Finest Hotel in Kabul plays to all Lyse DoucetâÂÂs strengths. Clarity, empathy, depth of knowledge and innate grasp of fine detail . . . a most readable account of joy, despair and resilience in one of the worldâÂÂs most fascinating countries.' MICHAEL PALIN
'A powerful and evocative account of a people who have borne tumultuous waves of progress and repression . . . A brilliant and important reminder of the cost of wars.' HELENA KENNEDY
