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| (Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book!) |
and loving it! I've only read a few pages and already I'm smitten with Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. He's just been sentenced to live at the Hotel Metropol in Moscow over a poem. How crazy is that?! I couldn't help but think of the old adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword." Especially, as the Bolsheviks seem to take it to heart when questioning the Count over his "incendiary" poem. Then again, the real reason they want to prosecute the Count is due to the fact that he is an aristocrat. Yep, they believe that his social and economic class has corrupted him and now he must pay the consequences - to live out his days at the Metropol. If he steps one foot outside the hotel he will be shot. And so, he walks back to the hotel, accompanied by two armed soldiers. Upon entering his room he finds the Captain and two bellhops awaiting him. Turns out that he can no longer reside in such spacious quarters and must now relocate to a tiny cell/room in the attic. Any belongings he can't fit into his new abode will be made property of the People. The Counts packs up what he can and settles into his new room and his new life. And now, I can't wait to find out what he will get up to at the Metropol now that he is forced to live there.
I'm off to continue reading Amor Towles latest book,
A Gentleman in Moscow - it just went on sale September 6th. If you enjoyed his first book,
Rules of Civility, you are going to LOVE
A Gentleman in Moscow. I've barely begun the book and already can tell this will be one of my favorite reads of the year.
Happy reading!!
