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A gentleman in Moscow [book club]
Call Number
- BOOK CLUB FICTION TOWL (CEN)
Publication Information
New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
Physical Description
462 pages : map ; 24 cm
Series
Summary
"1922. When Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. 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. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor and a glittering cast of characters, this novel relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose"--
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