![]() While Rostov’s circumstances are unique in the literal sense, there is something heartbreakingly universal about them as well. ![]() I’m stretching the bird metaphor a bit, but bear with me. He’s a funny, smart, entertaining character whose world is being darkened by a bleak authoritarian regime trapped in a gilded cage where any moment he could be plucked and cooked over the proverbial fire. I have seen this book plenty of times over the years, but it wasn’t until a family member loaned it to me that I thought of giving it a go and…I’m glad I did.įrom page one, I could tell the main character of Count Alexander Rostov was someone I would get along with. I’m super late to the party on this one, but when am I not? Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.īrimming 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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