Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow

Published: April 4, 2021, 3:30 p.m.

James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Amor Towles about his bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow. The 30 year story of Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov takes in the sweep of Russian history from the period just after the Russian Revolution, through the Stalinist purges, and heading towards Kruschev\u2019s thaw \u2013 all experienced thorough the lens of Rostov\u2019s long house arrest in The Metropol Hotel.

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Presenter: James Naughtie\nProducer: Allegra McIlroy

May\u2019s Bookclub choice: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty