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    "title": "A Gentleman in Moscow",
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    "annotation": "<P>\nIn 1922 Russia, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol hotel. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and an elegantly drawn era, this novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.\n</P>",
    "description": "<p><strong>&ldquo;The book is like a salve.&nbsp; I think the world feels disordered right now.&nbsp; The count&rsquo;s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we&rsquo;re longing for.&rdquo; &ndash; Ann Patchett<br /><br />&ldquo;How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>&mdash;The Washington Post</em></strong><br /><br /> <em>He can&rsquo;t leave his hotel. You won&rsquo;t want to.</em><br /><br /> From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Rules of Civility</em>&mdash;a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.<br /><strong><em><br /> </em></strong>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. 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&rsquo;s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.<br /><br /> Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count&rsquo;s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.<br /><br /><strong>&ldquo;And the intrigue! . . . [<em>A Gentleman in Moscow</em>] is laced with sparkling threads (they will tie up) and tokens (they will matter): special keys, secret compartments, gold coins, vials of coveted liquid, old-fashioned pistols, duels and scars, hidden assignations (discreet and smoky), stolen passports, a ruby necklace, mysterious letters on elegant hotel stationery . . . a luscious stage set, backdrop for a downright <em>Casablanca</em>-like drama.&rdquo; &mdash;<em>The San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong></p>",
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