A gentleman in Moscow

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Label

A gentleman in Moscow

Statement of responsibility

Amor Towles

Creator

• Towles, Amor

Author

• Towles, Amor

Subject

• Home detention -- Fiction
• Hotels -- Russia -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Moscow (Russia) -- History -- Fiction
• Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction
• Historical fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change." A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count 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 a doorway 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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3620.O945

LC item number

G46 2016

Literary form

fiction