Published by Viking
1st edition September 6, 2016
326 Pages
Hardcover:
480 pages
ISBN-10: 0670026190
ISBN-13: 978-0670026197
Summary from Amazon Books
From 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.
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 humour, 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.
