A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

The mega-bestseller with greater than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime collection starring Ewan McGregor as Rely Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Instances-bestselling creator of The Lincoln Freeway and Desk for Two, a fantastically transporting novel a couple of man who’s ordered to spend the remainder of his life inside a luxurious lodge

In 1922, Rely Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to deal with arrest within the Metropol, a grand lodge throughout the road from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has by no means labored a day in his life, and should now dwell in an attic room whereas a few of the most tumultuous a long time in Russian historical past are unfolding exterior the lodge’s doorways. Unexpectedly, his diminished circumstances present him entry right into a a lot bigger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering forged of characters, and one fantastically rendered scene after one other, this singular novel casts a spell because it relates the depend’s endeavor to realize a deeper understanding of what it means to be a person of goal.