A Gentleman in Moscow: A NovelThe mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a�beautifully 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 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 19 |
Section 4 | 30 |
Section 5 | 38 |
Section 6 | 48 |
Section 7 | 54 |
Section 8 | 65 |
Section 18 | 237 |
Section 19 | 248 |
Section 20 | 273 |
Section 21 | 274 |
Section 22 | 278 |
Section 23 | 315 |
Section 24 | 389 |
Section 25 | 395 |
Section 9 | 77 |
Section 10 | 88 |
Section 11 | 129 |
Section 12 | 171 |
Section 13 | 173 |
Section 14 | 191 |
Section 15 | 203 |
Section 16 | 213 |
Section 17 | 227 |
Section 26 | 402 |
Section 27 | 408 |
Section 28 | 416 |
Section 29 | 423 |
Section 30 | 438 |
Section 31 | 451 |
Section 32 | 460 |
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