A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by AMOR TOWLES
Recommended by Lynn Piotrowicz
10/14/2016
Reminiscent of the Russia of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Solzhenitsyn the author Amor Towles portrays the gluttony of the aristocracy and the harshness of reformation, rebellion, and radicalization. When we first meet the Count Alexander Rostov he is standing before a Bolshevik tribunal, sentenced to live his life under house arrest for acts of sedition. The tribunal states that they are letting him live but if he ever steps foot outside the Hotel Metropol they will have Kremlin guards shoot him on the spot. READ MORE...