A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780670026197 (0670026190)
ASIN: 0670026190
Publish date: 2016-09-06
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
This book was just what I needed. For starters the main character is forced to spend all of his time in one building. Granted that building has a five star restaurant, a full-service bar, and a barber shop that's allowed to operate but the man is stuck inside all the same. It kind of seems fitting r...
Not too much to say except I really loved this from beginning to end. Towles has a great character in Count Alexander Rostov. We follow the Count from his lock down at the Metropol from 1922 to the 1950s. "A Gentleman in Moscow" opens on a trial in 1922. Count Alexander Rostov is being charged w...
One of the few books this year I have attempted to read but just could not finish. The writing was good but I felt the claustrophobic setting of the Metropol Hotel in Moscow and the adventures of disgraced Count Alexander Rostov soon lost my attention. It would therefore be very unfair of me to rate...
On GoodReads this book gets 19,307 five star ratings and 10,728 four star, but I didn't enjoy it - is there something wrong with me?? I listened to the audio version and I didn't think I had a problem with the narrator, but I was really not gripped and had to force myself to pick it up each time. Af...
4.5 starsThis is beautiful, thoughtful and entertaining. After huge change ups in the Russian government, he is given house arrest in a hotel indefinitely. Despite being stuck there for decades, he doesn't seem to miss out on much. Someone is always visiting. Something is always happening. Even ...
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