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A review by saranies
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
4.0
What a delightful read. It feels like a long allusion to Russian literature and culture without being exclusionary.
Count Alexander Rostov gets "exiled" to Moscow's fanciest hotel at the beginning of Communism. (As a Former Person, he is spared execution because he authored a poem.) While there, he meets Nina, the young daughter of a party official, who shows him areas of the hotel he never considered as a guest and grants him a new perspective. Over the course of 30 years, things change in the outside world with only moderate shifts inside the Metropol.
It is a long read, but I enjoyed it. I needed something diverting with the news these days, and this book allowed me to distance myself from some of the worst parts without completely disengaging from the world.
Count Alexander Rostov gets "exiled" to Moscow's fanciest hotel at the beginning of Communism. (As a Former Person, he is spared execution because he authored a poem.) While there, he meets Nina, the young daughter of a party official, who shows him areas of the hotel he never considered as a guest and grants him a new perspective. Over the course of 30 years, things change in the outside world with only moderate shifts inside the Metropol.
It is a long read, but I enjoyed it. I needed something diverting with the news these days, and this book allowed me to distance myself from some of the worst parts without completely disengaging from the world.