Author: Lyse Doucet 

In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel.

The author provides an absorbing people’s history of Afghanistan through the narration of the history of the Intercontinental Hotel (Inter-Con) in Kabul — from its inauguration in 1969 till date. 

The account of how the hotel ownership and management changed hands during the protracted wars in Afghanistan and people who worked there makes for interesting reading.