A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

By Amor Towles

  • Release Date: 2016-09-06
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
Score: 4.5
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From 9,109 Ratings

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A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick

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.

Reviews

  • Challenging

    3
    By MB Do
    I can appreciate the historical significance of this book, but I'm not sure it was worth all the effort.
  • Makes the complex simple

    5
    By MartinArgo
    I read it late at night over the course of over a year. The imagery brought to mind with the clear and simple writing kept the story fresh in my mind. I love the serenity with which the author treated the subject of a complex time in history by focusing on a man with elegance. Caleb Johnson - Maine
  • A gentleman in Moscow

    5
    By Eva Palomares
    Excellent !
  • Simply Excellent!

    5
    By VB,VA1
    Beautifully written book will draw you inside another world. Well done!
  • A Definitive MUST READ

    5
    By AsMeAsAllowable
    The beauty of this novel has left me speechless. So much depth and intertwining themes; joy, gratitude, loyalty, patience, acceptance, love, community, neatly undone (and yet NOT) by hypocrisy, envy, humiliation, and atrocity. This is a book that I could only afford to put down through sheer exhaustion though readily and easily picked right back up after a few hours repose. Simultaneously distressing and hopeful, one could imagine himself in the shoes of the majority of proud Russians forced into obscurity by a futile ideology begun by the Bolsheviks and co-opted by Communists.
  • Exquisite

    5
    By BQ72
    A wonderful read, full of surprises.
  • Incredible

    5
    By surly-joe
    Just finished my second read. This will share the top spot of my favorite book of all time alongside …of Mice and Men.
  • Very enjoyable!

    5
    By BPR136
    Very engaging story and a pleasurable read.
  • Words can’t describe

    5
    By Wycada
    One of the best books I’ve ever read. Engrossing, entertaining, thought provoking, and absolutely delightful. Well done.
  • What an amazing read.

    5
    By Solly The Kid
    This book took me a while to finish, but every time I return to it, I was captivated and could not set it down. This is story that will change the way you approach most things in life. With so much going on, and so much to remember it is hard not to fall in love with each character as they come into the life of The Count. You will have such a great time reading this book, I could not recommend it more.

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