TY  - BOOK
AU  - Towles,Amor
TI  - A gentleman in Moscow
SN  - 9781786330383
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Hutchinson
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Soviet Union -- Fiction
N2  - 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
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