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Women’s prize for non-fiction winner, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, gives voice to the people of Afghanistan

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par Magnus Marsden, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan is about an institution tasked with the job of housing strangers – Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel. Through this hotel, which sits high on a hill, and the people within it, seasoned BBC journalist and current foreign affairs editor, Lyse Doucet, attempts tell an immersive history of the sweeping changes that have faced Afghanistan since it opened in 1969.

The book has won the third ever Women’s…

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