A Gentleman In Moscow

By Amor Towles

“A book that enchants on first reading and only improves on the second.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Towles gets good mileage from the considerable charm of his protagonist and the peculiar world he inhabits.”— The New Yorker

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.

Paperback
496 pages
Penguin Books, 2019
1.3 x 5.4 x 8.2 inches
ISBN 9780143110439
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction