![]() ![]() "Marvelous" - Chicago Tribune "The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, twists of fate and silly antics." - The Wall Street Journal "A winning, stylish novel." - NPR.org "Enjoyable, elegant." - Seattle Times "The perfect fall book to curl up with while the world goes by outside your window." - "Irresistible. ![]() 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. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. 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. The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series 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 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. ![]()
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