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Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow


2017. 480 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: RANDOM HOUSE UK; WINDMILL BOOKS 2017
ISBN: 0-09-955878-5 (0099558785)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-09-955878-1 (9780099558781)

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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.
Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA´S BEST BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF BILL GATES´S SUMMER READS OF 2019
NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD

´This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don´t miss it´ Chris Cleave ´No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original than Amor Towles´s A Gentleman in Moscow´ Sunday Times, Books of the Year´Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism´ The Times, Books of the Year ´[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It´s elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.´ Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.

Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.

Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
"[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It´s elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself." Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year
Amor Towles was born and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. An investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.