“This is an old fashioned sort of romance, filled with delicious detail. With them around, a life sentence in these gilded halls might make Rostov the luckiest man in Russia.” “Who will save Rostov from the intrusions of state if not the seamstresses, chefs, bartenders and doormen? In the end, Towles’s greatest narrative effect is not the moments of wonder and synchronicity but the generous transformation of these peripheral workers, over the course of decades, into confidants, equals and, finally, friends. “The perfect book to curl up with while the world goes by outside your window.” “The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, twists of fate and silly antics.” t brought home to me how people find ways to be happy, make connections, and make a difference to one another’s lives, even in the strangest, saddest and most restrictive circumstances.” “How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.” The count’s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we’re longing for.” I think the world feels disordered right now. The book is technically historical fiction, but you would be just as accurate calling it a thriller or a love story.” There’s fantastical romance, politics, espionage, parenthood and poetry. A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything.

Fareed Zakaria, 'Global Public Square,' CNN It brims with intelligence, erudition, and insight, an old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the term.' Beautifully written, a story of a Russian aristocrat trapped in Moscow during the tumult of the 1930s. 'If you're looking for a summer novel, this is it. 'The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, twists of fate.' Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.īrimming 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. 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. 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. The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostovįrom the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

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