The mega-bestseller with over 1.5 million readers, soon to be adapted into a major television series.

One of five summer reading recommendations for 2019 by Bill Gates.

The novel is bursting with energy from numerous adventures, love affairs, and twists of fate.

He cannot leave his hotel. You won’t want him to.

From the New York Times bestselling author of "Rules of Civility," a captivating novel about a man who is condemned to spend the rest of his life in a luxury hotel.

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a magnificent hotel across from the Kremlin. Rostov, an unflappable man full of education and wit, has never worked a day in his life and must now live in a garret while outside the most turbulent decades of Russian history unfold. Unexpectedly, his restricted circumstances grant him access to a much larger world of emotional discoveries.

Full of humor, with a dazzling ensemble of characters and scenes more beautiful than the last, this unique novel unfolds its magic as it depicts the Count's attempt to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man with purpose.