A gentleman in Moscow
(2016)
By:
Towles, Amor
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/TOWLES,A
4 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016]
DESCRIPTION
719 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781524708696, 1524708690
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from web page
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