# The Finest Hotel in Kabul

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- Authors: [Lyse Doucet](https://www.bookquiver.com/lyse-doucet)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-794-3
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2026-08-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the Women's Prize Non-Fiction Prize 2026 Book of the Year The Times • Financial Times • Guardian • Observer • Economist In 1969, the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected Afghans’ hopes of a modern, democratic future. In the decades since, its staff have endured two coups, a Soviet occupation, the US invasion, and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban. The Inter-Con has never closed its doors. Here, Lyse Doucet offers a vividly human history of modern Afghanistan through the lives of the people who have passed through its battered halls. It is the story of a hotel, and the story of a people.