If you are looking to read and talk about history, this is the book group for you!
Each season we will read non-fiction and fiction on a certain topic or era. For the winter, we will read A Gentleman in Moscow by Armor Towles which we will discuss on Monday, January 27 at 7 pm. For our second meeting on Monday, February 24 at 7 pm we will read from a list of books covering 20th Century Russian history.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Armor Towles.
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’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
Ages: Adult
Cost: Free
Contact: Mary at shannon@haverfordlibrary.org
