A Signatue of Resilience
Book title: A Gentleman in Moscow Book Author: Amor Towles It's a very unique book where we meet a once-upon-a-time-an-aristrocrat who is now living his life in exile, at hotel Metropol in Russia. The book provokes some fundamental thoughts, what is truly freedom... You may not force confinement by confining a man in a space, and similarly you may not achieve freedom even if you think so... Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is a... gentleman in one word. True gentleman, he bears the weight of the word. Literate and well mannered, and so and so. I loved his resilience. Many times he could have felt crushed, but like the bees of Nizhny Novgorod who drank the honey of the flowers fed on the soil and air of the countryside, he uplifts himself, carries the aura of a past that no amount of bolshevik present can't crush… The novel builds up around the hotel Metropol. The use of a luxury hotel in literature reminded me of another amazing book called Chowringhee by Shankar… I have just ad...
