Quarantine read: Reader recommends 'A Gentleman in Moscow'

February 19, 2021 at 1:52PM
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“A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles; Viking (480 pages, $27) (Penguin Random House) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

"A Gentleman in Moscow," by Amor Towles

I know that "A Gentleman in Moscow" hasn't been out all that long but it's very timely. The main character is quarantined for the entirety of the story, which is most of his adult life. He is under house arrest in the opulent hotel he had been living in before the Russian Revolution as a result of "subversive poetry."

Morgan Clifford, Stillwater

Quarantine Reads are recommendations of soothing books during fraught times. Send your suggestion, with name and city, to books@startribune.com

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