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The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers - A New York Times Readers Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century Pick From the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two a beautifully 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.