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03/08/2017 11:01 PMIt is Russia in 1922 and aristocrat Count Rostov is sentenced to house arrest by the ruling Bolsheviks at the famous Metropol Hotel. His room is sparse and small, but he has friends at the hotel and creates a life for himself. He befriends a mysterious young girl at the hotel and is involved with her as she grows older. As he states, man must master his circumstances or be mastered by them. The author injects some Russian history and a fairy tale into this complex novel!
Ree, Harbor Books, Old Saybrook