![]() ![]() 'A Gentleman in Moscow' is a novel that aims to charm, not be the axe for the frozen sea within us.Īnd then there are the digressive flights. He is not the king of infinite space, exactly, but he does live a full and rich life according to the principle that, "If one did not master one's circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them." ![]() Anyways, thus confined, Rostov passes the decades making a whole world out of a hotel and the people in it - a precocious 9-year-old, a moody chef, the French maître d', and so on. "The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n," Milton's charismatic Satan tells us - although the finest hotel in Moscow, with its restaurants and barber and elegant clientele, is a bit of a stretch for the fiery pits of damnation (or the snowdrifts of Siberia, for that matter). ![]() How?Ĭount Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is a "Former Person." Russia's new Soviet masters have sentenced him, improbably enough, to house arrest in Moscow's luxurious Metropol hotel, where he lives out his days decorating the dining room with his bon mots and dashing around like Eloise, if Eloise were set in a twee version of Stalinist Russia. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Gentleman in Moscow Author Amor Towles ![]()
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