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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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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
462 pages
What’s it about?
Count Alexander Rostov is 30-years-old when he is sentenced to house arrest in the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. The novel opens in 1922 as the Count is on trial. Count Alexander Rostov has lived in a world that will no longer exist in this new Russia. Juxtaposing the Count's old world sensibilities against the backdrop of a newly communist Moscow sets this story apart. Seeing the changes in Russia through the eyes of the Count is brilliant.
What did I think?
I loved the whole book! Count Alexander Rostov may go down as one of my favorite literary characters. Amor Towles is fantastically talented!
Should you read it?
I highly recommend this novel!
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“ ‘I’ll tell you what is convenient,’ he said after a moment. ‘To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel and appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka- and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.' ”
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
462 pages
What’s it about?
Count Alexander Rostov is 30-years-old when he is sentenced to house arrest in the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. The novel opens in 1922 as the Count is on trial. Count Alexander Rostov has lived in a world that will no longer exist in this new Russia. Juxtaposing the Count's old world sensibilities against the backdrop of a newly communist Moscow sets this story apart. Seeing the changes in Russia through the eyes of the Count is brilliant.
What did I think?
I loved the whole book! Count Alexander Rostov may go down as one of my favorite literary characters. Amor Towles is fantastically talented!
Should you read it?
I highly recommend this novel!
Quote-
“ ‘I’ll tell you what is convenient,’ he said after a moment. ‘To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel and appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka- and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.' ”
If you like this try-
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
My favorite Amor Towles book to date. Also highly recommend Rules of Civility (which is the first book I read).
I’m not even sure how to rate this beautifully written historical novel. The first half dragged and I really almost gave up on it. Once the character Sophie appears the novel picked up and the last third of the book was brilliant. I definitely missed parts having never watched Casablanca. The historical side notes add a lot to the book.
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