From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofRules of Civility,a novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel-a beautifully transporting novel.

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series

"Perhaps theultimatequarantine read . . .A Gentleman in Moscowis about the importance of community; the distance of a kind act; and resilience. It's a manual for getting through the days to come." -O, The Oprah Magazine

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.