01615cam a2200217   45000010005000000100017000050200018000221000020000402450042000602640033001023000030001353360026001653370028001913380027002195200909002466500024011556500025011796500031012049990015012359520147012506341  a  2016030082  a97817863303831 aTowles, Amor.e12aA gentleman in Moscow /cAmor Towles. 1aLondon :bHutchinson,c2016.  a462 pages :bmap ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aA 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.cProvided by publisher. 7aHistorical fiction. 7aPolitical fiction.2 7aSoviet Union -- Fiction.2  c5346d5346  00102ddc40708FICaRTCLIBbRTCLIBcFICd2018-11-27h i10049l3oFIC 813.54 TOWp30010160r2024-04-19 00:00:00s2024-04-02w2018-11-27yFIC