A Gentleman in Moscow A Novel

Amor Towles

eBook - 2016

A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickThe 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 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 m...ost tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his... more