We see his interactions with the other guests and staff in the Hotel and hear his adventures and anecdotes. We see how he learns to find purpose in his life despite his confinement. The Count is confined in the hotel and as such, his world is reduced from one of travel and glamour to something much more every day. The book is decidedly small in its scope. The narrator of this audible book is Nicholas Guy Smith and while he doesn’t make any allowance for the eastern setting of the work, he does give the Count the necessary gravitas and sense of decorum you would expect from a man of noble origins. It is currently being adapted into a TV miniseries with Kenneth Branagh producing and playing the part of the Count. The novel received much praise and was a finalist for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.
This is his second novel, following on from the Rules of Civility (2011). Towles was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. This book is written by Amor Towles and was published in 2016. The book follows his new existence inside the walls of the Hotel. He is not allowed to leave the confines of the hotel for the rest of his days as he lives the life of a former person. He is placed under house arrest in the Hotel Metropol, Moscow. As the trial takes place, he is faced with being executed for his crime, but due to a revolutionary poem he wrote years before he receives a lesser sentence. The Count is arrested and charged with being a social parasite. It is now 1917 and the Bolshevik revolution has taken place. He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 24 October 1889. In this work, we are introduced to Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles – Audible Book Review
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