A Gentleman in Moscow

From the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Rules of Civility! a novel 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 “Perhaps the  ultimate  quarantine read . . .  A Gentleman in Moscow  is about the importance of community; the distance of a kind act; and resilience. It's a manual for getting through the days to come.” — O! The Oprah Magazine 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.