Bibliograph

A gentleman in Moscow, a novel, Amor Towles

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A gentleman in Moscow, a novel, Amor Towles

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A gentleman in Moscow

Responsibility statement

Amor Towles

Sub title

a novel

Summary

When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he's 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

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