But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. 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.ĭeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year It is his second novel, published five years after his New York Times best seller, Rules of Civility (2011).
'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original ' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for 59 weeks, was a finalist for the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. A Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles. 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Ewan McGregor THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, THE NEW DAZZLING NOVEL BY AMOR TOWLES, OUT NOW
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