TY - BOOK AU - Towles, Amor. TI - A Gentleman in Moscow SN - 9780143132462 AV - FIC .T69 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - POLITICAL -- FICTION N2 - 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 ER -