Author: Amor Towles

Nominated By : Cherie Smith

fiction

Count Alesander- recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt- is a "former person."Russia's new Soviet masters have sentenced him to house arrest in Moscow's luxurious Metropol Hotel, where he lives out his days decorating the dining room. " The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, or hell of heaven.
Thus confined, Rostov passes the decades making a whole world out of the hotel and the people in it. He does live a full and rich life according to life according to the principle that"if one did not master one's circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them.
This is a historical novel that took place in Russia during years 1917-57.

Review From: New York Times

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