The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television
series The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures love affairs [and] twists of
fate. -The Wall Street Journal He can't leave his hotel. You won't want to. From the New York
Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility-a transporting novel about a man who is ordered
to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922 Count Alexander Rostov is deemed
an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and is sentenced to house arrest in the
Metropol a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov an indomitable man of
erudition and wit has never worked a day in his life and must now live in an attic room while
some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.
Unexpectedly his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional
discovery. Brimming with humor a glittering cast of characters and one beautifully rendered
scene after another this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to
gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
