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A Gentleman in Moscow

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A Gentleman in Moscow

Written by: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
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The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully 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. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Russia Witty Heartfelt Soviet Union Classics Cold War
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I absolutely loved this title. Amos Towles prose being read back to you is such a treat. Would highly recommend

Spellbinding

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This was not an edge-of-your-seat listen but it was a very charming story. Worth the listen.

Charming

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Towles invites you into the Metropol hotel where his cast of characters (arranged around a so called former person -the count) tell a story that has many unexpected turns. Through their clever dialogue it considers the consequences of the Russian revolution-good, bad and atrocious. Great narration!

A work of fiction constructed on nuanced understanding of soviet histor

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My new favourite book, an awe-inspiring, humorous, insightful tale of an aristocrat who is confined to a hotel, through whom we see the cultural, political, and generational changes of the last century in Russia. Rich, multidimensional characters have become my family as I follow them through the years, until the momentous adventure crescendos to a thrilling, satisfying conclusion. The author’s talent is matched by the narrator who perfectly brings the story to life. An amazing book.

Exceptional story, beautifully told

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Really well written historical fiction, minor clues and hints dropped throughout the story that are so very subtle to what may happen later on in the book but nothing patently obvious, lots of ahh hah moments for me. Although, don't think many got terms of house arrest in an Iconic Luxury Hotel under Stalin, at best a work camp, gulag or the infamous "8 grams".

Fantastic Book! Recommend to.....Anyone!

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