A Gentleman in Moscow A Novel

Amor Towles

eBook - 2016

A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyThe mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander RostovFrom 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 hotelIn 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, a...nd must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding... more