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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
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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.
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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This is the best book that I have read in a long time. I am in love with Count Rostov. What seems a tragic life in the beginning, with marvelous twists and unexpected turns, becomes the life of the luckiest man on earth. Do not miss the experience of living with this book. It will stay with you long after you read the last sentence.
I traveled in time with exquisite precision and elegance. This story has gossamer wings and should be savored, slowly, in the manner of a five course meal with a fine wine pairing.
"This was the very woman who, as a child herself, had crossed the Piazza without hesitation in order to become his friend; who had shown him the hidden corners of the hotel and and bestowed upon him, quite literally, the key to its mysteries. When such a friend has sought one out to ask for aid--particularly one for whom asking favors in a time of need does not come naturally--then there is only one acceptable response."
"What is an intention when compared to a plan?" ~ Count Alexander Rostov
"This was the very woman who, as a child herself, had crossed the Piazza without hesitation in order to become his friend; who had shown him the hidden corners of the hotel and and bestowed upon him, quite literally, the key to its mysteries. When such a friend has sought one out to ask for aid--particularly one for whom asking favors in a time of need does not come naturally--then there is only one acceptable response."
"What is an intention when compared to a plan?" ~ Count Alexander Rostov
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