The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a
Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander
Rostov
From the #1 New York Times**-bestselling author** of The
Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting
novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a
luxury hotel
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*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. 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 entry into a much larger world of
emotional discovery.
Brimming 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.