• Literary Society

  A Gentleman in Moscow

  by Amor Towles
  
  The winner for September's selection is A Gentleman in Moscow, by Armor Towles with 16 votes .   Second place was tied with 6 votes each for T he Feather Thief: Beauty, Obse ssion, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.  Show comes in at 5 votes for And Now I See, by Bishop Robert Barron
  
  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.

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