A Gentleman in Moscow : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from tangledthread

I had a hard time getting into this book at the beginning, but as it progressed I became more engaged in the story and the many sub-stories within the book. Resourceful 32 y.o. Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in the elegant Moscow Metropol Hotel and his residence is mov...

from msf59

"Fate would not have the reputation it has, if it simply did what it seemed it would do."  "If patience wasn't so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue..." In 1922, at thirty years of age, Count Alexander Rostov, is placed under house arrest, for being a unrepentant aristocrat. He is to...

from fionaanne

Gentle and enjoyable. Rostov is a sympathetic, if absurd, character and inhabits a soft life of house arrest where all the truly horrendous history is only background noise to his semi-isolated existence.

from creighley

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed to be an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across 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 a...

from Smits

I've heard that this is a book that you either loved or hated. I loved it. I loved the dignified, eccentric, kind and especially the gentleman that is Count Alexander Rostov. He is a master of language and subtly