A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

More than half a million readers have fallen in love with the New York Times bestseller, A Gentleman in Moscow

€œHow delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.€
-The Washington Post

€œ'The Grand Budapest Hotel€ and €˜Eloise€ meets all the Bond villains.€
€“TheSkimm 

€œIrresistible. . .[an] elegant period piece. . .as lavishly filigreed as a Faberg© egg.€
 €“O, The Oprah Magazine
 
He can€t leave his hotel. You won€t want to.
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility€"a 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.

€œAnd the intrigue! €¦ [A Gentleman in Moscow] is laced with sparkling threads (they will tie up) and tokens (they will matter): special keys, secret compartments, gold coins, vials of coveted liquid, old-fashioned pistols, duels and scars, hidden assignations (discreet and smoky), stolen passports, a ruby necklace, mysterious letters on elegant hotel stationery€¦ a luscious stage set, backdrop for a downright Casablanca-like drama.€ €“The San Francisco Chronicle