A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles.
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TextPublisher: New York : Viking, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 462 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670026197 (hardback)Subject(s): FICTION / Historical | FICTION / Literary | FICTION / Political | American fiction -- 21st century | Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction | Home detention -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Hotels -- Russia -- Fiction | Moscow (Russia) -- History -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. Additional physical formats: Online version: Gentleman in MoscowDDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3620.O945 | G46 2016Other classification: FIC014000 | FIC019000 | FIC037000 Summary: A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov 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 entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov 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 entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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