01710cam a2200397 i 4500 344401984 TxAuBib 20180410120000.0 160810s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016030082 9780670026197 0670026190 (OCoLC)944380324 TxAuBib rda Towles, Amor,. A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles. New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Random House LLC, [2016] ©2016. 462 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20180410. Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction. Home detention Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Hotels Russia Fiction. Moscow (Russia) History Fiction. Russia (Federation) Moscow. Fiction. History. Historical fiction. Fiction. Towles, Amor., New York : Viking, 2016.