Our selection for March is
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Come pick up a copy of the book at the Reference Desk at the library. We'll meet on Wednesday March 22nd at 1pm by the fireplace.
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn
era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is
deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count 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 a doorway 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.
