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From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility -- a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the...

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Main Author: Towles, Amor (Author)
Other Authors: Smith, Nicholas Guy (Narrator)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Audio, 2016.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Aristocracy (Social class) > Fiction.
Home detention > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Hotels > Russia > Fiction.
Moscow (Russia) > History > Fiction.
Historical fiction
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Summary:From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility -- a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and 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 entry 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.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (14 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:17:53:06
Format:Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 503604 KB).
ISBN:9780735288553
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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