Name: A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
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Author: Amor Towles
ISBN: 9780670026197

Type

Physical Book

Author

Amor Towles

Publisher

Viking

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1x16x4.3 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN13

9780670026197

Edition No.

Synopsis "A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel "

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and 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 entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

Amor Towles

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Amor Towles (Boston, 1964) graduated from Yale University and completed postgraduate studies in English Literature at Stanford. He is the author of the novels Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was successfully adapted into a TV series, and The Lincoln Highway, and the short story collection Dinner for Two, four works published in Spanish by Salamandra which have sold over six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. After working in finance for over twenty years, Towles now writes full-time in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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