From the bestselling author of --a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, count alexander rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a bolshevik tri...From the bestselling author of --a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, count alexander rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the kremlin.