A Gentleman in Moscow
By Amor Towles
Categories: Literature & Fiction
In 1922, a Bolshevik tribunal declares Count Alexander Rostov an unrepentant aristocrat and sentences him to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. A man of wit and learning who has never worked a day in his life, he must now live in an attic room. As decades of Russian history unfold outside the doors, Amor Towles's warm, funny novel follows the count's search for a life of purpose within the hotel's walls.