Mosŭk'ŭba ŭi sinsa

No cover

Amor Towles: Mosŭk'ŭba ŭi sinsa (Korean language, 2018, Hyŏndae Munhak)

723 pages

Korean language

Published April 29, 2018 by Hyŏndae Munhak.

ISBN:
978-89-7275-894-5
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
1045426783

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (3 reviews)

"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery..."--

20 editions

Review of 'A Gentleman in Moscow' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This is an excellent novel with strong characters. It tells the compelling story of a man confined to a hotel in Russia in 1922 - a resonant theme for those of us in 2020. Definitely the best fiction I have read in the last 12 months.

Starting with this period of post-Tsarist Russia and the main character who is a former member of the aristocracy provides a cultured point of view. Through words, he describes his hotel setting as becoming smaller and smaller until young Sofia opens his eyes and changes his focus. This meeting happened by a chain of chance events, and that is the real theme of the novel - small decisions and interactions leading to life-changing events.

Though nearly all told from Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov's point of view, many other characters have solid growth and direction through the novel. Even the background characters were well written …

Subjects

  • Interpersonal relations
  • Aristocracy (Social class)
  • Home detention
  • Hotels
  • History
  • Fiction

Places

  • Moscow (Russia)
  • Russia