Be sure to visit the author's website where you'll find a playlist, an informative author Q & A and some recipe suggestions for your Book Club meeting. This book is definitely going on my list of favorites and would make a fantastic book for your next Book Club.
The author does an excellent job of painting a fabulous picture of life in 1922 Russia, and his unique writing style is on point and a pleasure to read. Some of the scenes in the book are hilarious while others are quite heartwarming.
A Gentleman in Moscow was a finalist for the 2016 Kirkus Prize in Fiction & Literature. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall recommended the book to those in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a quirky, sarcastic, clever character you can't help but fall in love with him as he navigates life in the Metropol hotel. At Book Marks, a review aggregator website, the novel received a cumulative 'Positive' rating based on 11 reviews: 3 'Rave', 5 'Positive', and 3 'Mixed'. This sets the scene as Rostov makes the most of his new situation and carves out a life for himself. The protagonist, Count Alexander Rostov is a former Russian aristocrat sentenced to live out his life in the luxurious Metropol hotel rather than spend his life in prison or worse yet, death.Īccording to the author's website, this was quite common in Russia. The many nuances and details each character brought to the story helped to transport me to 1922 Russia and stay there for the 30 years the book spans. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.īrimming 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.( From the publisher.What pulled me into this story were the vividly drawn characters and their relationships with each other. 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. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Readers and critics were enchanted.Ī Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov.
With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style.
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