Books Details
Author : Amor Towles Pages : pages Publisher : Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B01E0CCSXA ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of
Civility?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. 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
