From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility and the forthcoming novel The Lincoln Highway, a story about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel—a beautifully transporting novel. The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a … 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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Charming and very well written!
One of the best books I’ve read in years! I absolutely loved everything about it. My only complaint is that it ended!
One of the best books I’ve ever read! Outstanding writer.
This writing is stunning, the setting is interesting, but this story didn’t entirely land for me. This stemmed from my lack of connection with the main character — in my opinion he read as more caricature than human. That said, I’d still like to read Rules of Civility and would recommend this to someone interested in this historical time period/setting.
One of my favorite books of all time.
i loved it!!
Did not want it to end!
Great for book clubs
Beautifully written. One of those books you don’t want to end.
I didn’t want the book to end. Really felt like I’d taken a trip to Bolshevik Moscow.
Beautiful prose, like a nineteenth century novel. Great characters. I just finished this weekend and I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.