ISBN  9780099558781

A Gentleman in Moscow


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Autor  Amor Towles
Editorial  Windmill Books
Categoria  Ingles
Condicion  Nuevo

More than half a million readers have fallen in love with the New York Times bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow Everything a novel should be: charming witty poetic and generous. An absolute delight Mail on Sunday A work of great charm intelligence and insight Sunday Times Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman New York Times Book Review A comic masterpiece Daily Express If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky Matt Williams Radio 2 Book Club Abundant in humour history and humanity Sunday Telegraph Wistful whimsical and wry Sunday Express 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. But instead of being taken to his usual suite he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval the Count stripped of the trappings that defined his life is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress a cantankerous chef and a very serious child Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose..


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