2023/022: A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles

2023/022: A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles

“As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.” [loc. 3423]

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is summoned before the Emergency Committee of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs. As an aristocrat, he expects to be executed: but a revolutionary poem he once wrote is his salvation, and instead he is designated a Former Person and sentenced to life imprisonment in his current residence, the Hotel Metropol.( Read more... )