WFL Book Group November meeting

 

The WFL Book Group meets Tuesday, November 14th at 1:30pm, at the library. Discussing A  Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

New members are always welcome to join our lively literary discussions. Feel free to just listen in, or participate in the conversation.

Summary from CLAMS: A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count 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 a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery…