A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles

By:

Towles, Amor [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, c2016Description: 462 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9780143132462

Subject(s):

POLITICAL -- FICTION

LOC classification:

FIC .T69 2016

Summary: 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.

Item type:

Books - Fiction

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books - Fiction	National University - Manila	LRC - Annex Fiction	Fiction	FIC .T69 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000016109

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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.

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