![]() ![]() 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. 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. You won’t want to.įrom 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. “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. ![]()
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