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2nd Wednesday Book Club's next book is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

May 10, 2018

Sentenced to live his days in a small room, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov recounts his version of Russian history.

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.

Come discuss A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles on June 13, 2018. We meet at the Main Library in the Commons at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch.