“How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.” -The Washington Post The count’s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we’re longing for.” -Ann Patchett I think the world feels disordered right now.

The book is technically historical fiction, but you would be just as accurate calling it a thriller or a love story.” -Bill Gates There’s fantastical romance, politics, espionage, parenthood and poetry. A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything. “The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, twists of fate.” - The Wall Street Journal Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.īrimming 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. 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. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.

Readers and critics were enchanted as NPR commented, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.”Ī Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov.

With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. 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

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles