A Gentleman in Moscow

Description

resented in September folder 2016 In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and w it, has never w orked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room w hile some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorw ay into a much larger w orld of emotional discovery. Brimming w ith humour, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the Count’s endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of w hat it means to be a man of purpose.

Author: Amor Towles