Better Than The Movie Book Club meets to discuss a buzzy book that has a film or TV adaptation. When everyone else is talking about it, we can say we actually read the book first.
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.
TV series expected on Showtime and Paramount+ in December of 2023.
Have you already read this title? Join us for the discussion! Registration is not required for those that do not need to pick up the title from us.
Books will be ready for pick up from the library on Tuesday, August 22nd.
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