I especially enjoyed the positivism that came out of it even though the backdrop was not pleasant at times. The tone of the book is light, at times humorous, and engaging. Towles super power is writing – he can transform each scene and make it pulse with life. I was salivating for a glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape! I enjoyed the evocative food descriptions, especially the food and wine pairing. I enjoyed every nuance and sentence in this book! I love the way Towles pays attention to details, and the descriptions are so well done that you can feel, hear or taste whatever he’s describing. Can reading make me happy? This novel, hands down gets the award for making me happy and it should get the Pulitzer or something. Towles writing evokes a sense of euphoria in me. Here’s why I loved it so much! Beautifully Written It is this kind of book that propels and inspires me to read! What a wonderful, humorous, uplifting book. This is the first best book of 2017 that I have read and can’t say enough how brilliant it is. If you are going to read one book this year, make it A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles! For more information, visit Amor Towles on Facebook and his website.

Synopsis from hardcover version, 472 pages, copyright 2016 and published by Viking. But when fate suddenly puts the life of a young girl in his hands, he must draw on all his ingenuity to protect the future she so deserves. Unexpectedly, the Count’s reduced circumstances provide him entry to a much large world of emotional discovery as he forges friendships with the hotel’s other denizens, including a willful actress, a shrewd Kremlinite, a gregarious American, and a temperamental chef. An indomitable man of erudition and wit, Rostov must now live in the attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. When in 1922, the thirty year old Count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. A Gentleman In Moscow: Book Review by Dinh.

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