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A Gentleman in Moscow: A NovelIn 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 hotels doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances

while a handful of their suppliers turn themselves into millionaire railroad magnates

or a cautionary fable about getting what you wish for

a work of high art

and the promise of a better world

On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents

prank calls -- you can count on them to save the day

" Combining the spareness of fable with the potency of parable

shut down the social media

she meets―and becomes one of―the lucky

Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s

while its simple message reminds everyone that the best thing you can be is yourself

Armand Gamache