Description
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to lifelong house arrest in Moscow’s grand Metropol Hotel after a poem spares him from execution for his aristocratic origins. Confined to a small attic room while revolution, political upheaval, and changing generations unfold beyond the hotel’s doors, he must build a meaningful life from the limited world around him. Through friendships, acts of kindness, and encounters with guests and officials—including a Soviet officer seeking to understand the ways of a gentleman—Rostov discovers that purpose can be found in even the most constrained circumstances. Both an elegant historical novel and a meditation on resilience, dignity, friendship, and the quiet power of everyday choices, the book unfolds through richly observed moments and Amor Towles’s polished, gently humorous prose.
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paperback
Unknown
Published Jan 1, 2026
560 pages
ISBN: 9783446286986
hardcover
Viking
Published Jan 1, 2016
462 pages
ISBN: 9780670026197
paperback
Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg.
Published Nov 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783548290720
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
deu
Translation
Original: Ein Gentleman in Moskau
From: eng
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Content and trigger warnings for A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.