A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility - a dazzling, transporting novel about an exceptional man who is sentenced to spend the rest of his life inside a historic luxury hotel in Moscow.

In his new work of fiction Amor Towles has created another story that sparkles with finely drawn, fascinating characters and splendid atmosphere. As the novel opens in 1922, Alexander Rostov, a Russian Count in his early thirties, has been deemed by a Bolshevik tribunal to be an unrepentant aristocrat. Rather than being forced into exile or worse, the Count is ordered to spend the rest of his life in a small attic room at the Metropol, a luxury hotel in Moscow where he had for the previous four years been ensconced in a lavish suite.

The Count is an indomitable man of great elegance, erudition, wit, and honor, and how he adapts to and is transformed by his reduced circumstances over the course of the ensuing three decades makes for a lively and often surprising tale.