Author: AMOR TOWLES
Title: Gentleman in moscow
Description: Penguin US. Paperback. Pp: 400. The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television seriesOne of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." "The Wall Street JournalHe can`t leave his hotel. You won`t want to. 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.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. ISBN: 9780143110439. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780143110439
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Title: Gentleman in moscow
Description: Penguin US. Paperback. Pp: 400. The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television seriesOne of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." "The Wall Street JournalHe can`t leave his hotel. You won`t want to. 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.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. ISBN: 9780143110439. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780143110439
Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2241701
- Book number: 2241701
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