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"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another 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,...

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Main Author: Towles, Amor (Author)
Other Authors: Smith, Nicholas Guy (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [Westminster, MD] : New York : Books on Tape ; Random House Audio, [2016]
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Aristocracy (Social class) > Fiction.
Home detention > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Hotels > Russia > Fiction.
Moscow (Russia) > History > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Russia.
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Summary:"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another 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..."--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:Title from container.
Compact disc.
Physical Description:14 audio discs (17 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:17:53:00
ISBN:9780735288546
0735288542
9780735288522
0735288526
Author Notes:Amor Towles grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. His novel, "Rules of Civility" reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. The book was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2011. The book has been published in 15 languages. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned to be made into a feature film. Viking/Penguin published Towles's next novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, on September 6, 2016.

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