01456cam a2200205 4500 6341 2016030082 9781786330383 Towles, Amor. A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles. London : Hutchinson, 2016. 462 pages : map ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he 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 a doorway 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. Provided by publisher. Historical fiction. Political fiction. Soviet Union -- Fiction. 5346 5346 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC RTCLIB RTCLIB FIC 2018-11-27 10049 3 FIC 813.54 TOW 30010160 2024-04-19 00:00:00 2024-04-02 2018-11-27 FIC