A Gentleman in Moscow : The worldwide bestseller

Author: Towles, Amor

Russia

Published on 2 November 2017 by Cornerstone (Windmill Books).

Paperback | 480 pages
129 x 196 x 30 | 352g

THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, THE NEW DAZZLING NOVEL BY AMOR TOWLES, OUT NOWOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Ewan McGregor A wonderful book - Tana FrenchThis novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Dont miss it - Chris CleaveNo historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original - Sunday Times, Books of the Year[A] supremely uplifting novel ... Its elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself. - Mail on Sunday, Books of the YearCharming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism - The Times, Books of the YearOn 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.

Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.

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