A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow was a Book of the Decade (2010-2020) by the Independent, the Times Book of the Year 2017, a Sunday Times Book of the Year 2017, a Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2017, a Daily Express Book of the Year 2017, an Irish Times Book of the Year 2017, one of Barack Obama's Best Books of 2017, and one of Bill Gates's Summer Reads of 2019. On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?