A Gentleman in Moscow Condition:Like New Publication Date: 13 May 2014

Publication Date: 13 May 2014

When Willow Lake asks her daughters for help renovating the family home

" —New York Times Book Review"Lewis has a keen eye

Pankaj Mishra re-tells the history of the past two centuries

A Gentleman in Moscow Condition:Like New Publication Date: 13 May 2014When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel near the Kremlin. An indomitable man of erudition and wit, Rostov must now live in an attic room as some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. Unexpectedly, Rostov's reduced circumstances provide him entry into a world of emotional discovery as he forges friendships with