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Count Alexander Rostov. Oh, Amor Towles, you've created a character for the ages.
Words can barely describe how I adored this book, beginning to end. Count Rostov's life is spared (in the first of many small, but instrumental events that drive this novel) when Communism comes to Russia and Rostov is exiled....to a glamorous hotel. He is never, ever to leave its walls or he will be killed on the spot. How he survives this, how he builds a life, a world. This novel is absolutely beautiful and I so ...more
Words can barely describe how I adored this book, beginning to end. Count Rostov's life is spared (in the first of many small, but instrumental events that drive this novel) when Communism comes to Russia and Rostov is exiled....to a glamorous hotel. He is never, ever to leave its walls or he will be killed on the spot. How he survives this, how he builds a life, a world. This novel is absolutely beautiful and I so ...more
Oh my! I've liked the two other Amor Towles books I've read (Rules of Civility and The Lincoln Highway), but this is perhaps the best. A Russian aristocrat is arrested in 1923 and rather than being executed, is put in permanent confinement in the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. In a "prison" sentence that lasts over 30 years, "the Count" must learn to change in virtually every aspect of his life.
The story is magnificent and the writing goes beyond that. I spent many hours reading summaries and themes ...more
The story is magnificent and the writing goes beyond that. I spent many hours reading summaries and themes ...more
Wine was drunk. Time passed.
3.5 ⭐
Jul 18, 2017
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Laura
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