{"id":2175,"date":"2018-02-25T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2018-04-25T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:48:28","slug":"a-gentleman-in-moscow-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Amor Towles, 2016, Viking<\/p>\n<p>This is a lovely book, slow paced and articulate.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a story of a nobleman in Russia who is declared a non-person by the Communist Party after the revolution and is sentence to live the rest of his life in a small room in the attic of a hotel where he formerly resided.\u00c2\u00a0 He assumes the role of the ma\u00c3\u00aetre d&#8217; of the hotel and gets on with his life.<\/p>\n<p>The book satirizes the Soviet society but does it tongue-in-cheek and doesn&#8217;t stoop to polemics.\u00c2\u00a0 The characters are warm and humorous and all of them are really believable.\u00c2\u00a0 The best of them, however, is the gentleman himself.\u00c2\u00a0 Would only that the world had more individuals like him!<\/p>\n<p>One recommendation for this book, however, is to read it slowly.\u00c2\u00a0 I found myself wanting to get on with it and find out what happens next.\u00c2\u00a0 Resist that urge as it is best enjoyed at a leisurely pace to savor all it has to offer.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Amor Towles, 2016, Viking This is a lovely book, slow paced and articulate.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a story of a nobleman in Russia who is declared a non-person by the Communist Party after the revolution and is sentence to live <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2175\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}