Here, the plot unravels in just one building and it is to Towles's credit that this never feels claustrophobic. The usual rigmarole."Ī Gentleman in Moscow arrives six years after Towles's popular debut, Rules of Civility, set in Twenties New York, and has a similarly well-polished sense of time and place. He is, however, unrepentant, describing his business as "Dining, discussing. Sentenced by the Bolshevik Tribunal, Rostov has been found guilty of being a Count, and having "succumbed irrevocably to the corruptions of his class". But in Amor Towles's lively new novel, this charming gentleman, a sort of early 20th-century adventurer, finds himself under indefinite house arrest at Moscow's sprawling Metropol Hotel in 1922. Count Alexander Rostov is a recipient of the Order of St Andrew, a member of the Jockey Club and a Master of the Hunt.
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