A Gentleman in Moscow Condition:Like New " —New York Times Book

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Rei Inamoto

A Gentleman in Moscow Condition:Like New " —New York Times BookWhen, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel near the Kremlin. An indomitable man of erudition and wit, Rostov must now live in an attic room as some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. Unexpectedly, Rostov's reduced circumstances provide him entry into a world of emotional discovery as he forges friendships with