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By Amor Towles

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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. Instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard.

Product code: 9780099558781

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ISBN 9780099558781
Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) 198x129x30mm
No. Of Pages 512
Publisher Cornerstone
On Sale Date 02/11/2017

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. ** Available for pre-order, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, the dazzling new novel from Amor Towles ** Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD- a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh _________________________ 'A wonderful book' - Tana French 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year ' A supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year 'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year _________________________ 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. 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. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? _________________________ A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT) THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD

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Sue, Masterton Paper Plus - December 2020

‘In an era as crude and disposable as ours, it is wonderful to immerge yourself in a novel that stretches out with old-world elegance. Put simply, ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a reminder of what it means to be classy. The book opens a few years after the Russian Revolution in a period of violent upheaval. Count Alexandra Rostov, an unrepentant aristocrat, is summoned to the Emergency Committee and accused of writing a counter-revolutionary poem. Asked to state his occupation he replies, “It is not the business of a gentleman to have occupations”. That’s when I knew I would love this book. He was of course found guilty, but thanks to friends in high places he was not put up against the wall; instead he was declared a ‘Former-person’ and sentenced to life imprisonment in Moscow’s Hotel Metropol, a beacon of luxurious accommodation that still stands today. Thus begins our irresistible relationship with Count Rostov, a connoisseur of multiple tastes, exceedingly cultured, widely educated, and armed with wit as sharp as a Cossack sword. The encounters and the characters are colourful, some transitory, some permanent, most fictional, some historical, and all are bound together with writing of remarkable beauty. And the ending. Ahh, the ending. It’s perfect. I read this book 14 months ago. I still miss it. But I revisit often and always with a perfectly paired glass of wine in my hand, as Count Rostov would approve’.