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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

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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496 pages

Average rating: 7.99

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Community Reviews

Anonymous
May 04, 2025
6/10 stars
I just loved the Count and all three people he encounters at the Metropol. It got a little slow at one point but then picked back top and was completely entertaining to the last page. Thoroughly loved this slice of history told by colorful characters!
kwolfson
Apr 23, 2025
9/10 stars
A beautiful literary fiction novel with lovely characters. The ending!?!
Wally B
Apr 07, 2025
6/10 stars
Overall a god read. Not really my genre to be honest. I thought it was a bit long. The history ties were well done.
Quiglet
Mar 26, 2025
10/10 stars
My favorite Amor Towles book to date. Also highly recommend Rules of Civility (which is the first book I read).
wardbunch
Mar 26, 2025
8/10 stars
Got 3/4 through and got bored.

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