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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2019 · 462 pages
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, 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.
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Aaron Nagler
“@briankoppelman @amortowles Fantastic book as well as a triumph in cover design. I legit bought it at B&N knowing barely anything about it because I loved the title and the cover.”↗
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“@ram_ssk @amortowles It was a fantastic book. Read it based on Billg's book recommendations.”↗
Brian Moran
“@greenfield64 I listened to both those books by Towles and they were fantastic. Always on my recommended list (the narrators were excellent).”↗
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