A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller Paperback

Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced in 1922 to live out his days inside Moscow's Hotel Metropol, and Amor Towles turns that one building into three decades of Russian history. Moved from a suite to an attic room, the Count builds a life out of what remains: the restaurant, the barbershop, a friendship with a young girl who knows the hotel's hidden passages, and the staff who become his household. Outside the doors the country changes shape, and the novel registers those shifts through who walks into the lobby and who stops coming. This Windmill Books paperback runs 512 pages. At a glance: • Complete novel in a 512-page Windmill Books paperback • Set almost entirely inside one Moscow hotel • Spans three decades of twentieth-century Russian change • Character-led storytelling with a light comic register For readers of literary fiction, historical novels and book club selections, available from Boipoka.