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A Gentleman in Moscow
A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
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Reviews
What a captivating read! I loved the characters, and I was completely fascinated by the world of the Metropol Hotel in Moscow during the first three decades of the USSR. Given that world affairs seem so destabilized, it was a comfort to read this story about another destabilizing time in history.
By sara.k.barz
Might just be the most wonderful book I’ve ever read. Cheers to Sasha (and Rick)!
By stephen8348
HEROIC, INSPIRING, COMICAL, THOUGHTFUL
By steeblinski
Best book I’ve read in a long time!! One of the few I’ll read again.
By Torrey's Mom
I can appreciate the historical significance of this book, but I'm not sure it was worth all the effort.
By MB Do