The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readersΓÇöNow a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two,a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel In 1922Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunaland is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropola grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostovan indomitable man of erudition and withas never worked a day in his lifeand must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotelΓÇÖs doors. Unexpectedlyhis reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humora glittering cast of charactersand one beautifully rendered scene after anotherthis singular novel casts a spell as it relates the countΓÇÖs endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.