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Towles follows his best-selling novel of 1930s New York (Rules of Civility) with a sophisticated saga of life in Moscow under Bolshevik and Soviet rule. In 1922, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is pronounced an "unrepentant aristocrat" and sentenced to house arrest in his home-away-from-home, the Metropol Hotel, only spared being "put against the wall" because of a prerevolutionary poem he wrote in 1913. After he is marched across Red Square, Rostov is warned that if he ever steps outside the Metropol, he'll be shot. Despite being moved from his sum...Log In or Sign Up to Read More