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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.