书名：A Gentleman In Moscow  莫斯科的绅士

作者：Amor Towles

出版社名称：Penguin Books

出版时间：2019

语种：英语

ISBN：9780143110439

商品尺寸：3.3 x 13.7 x 20.8 cm

包装：平装

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television seriesFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotelIn 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.

Born andraisedinthe Bostonarea,Amorlowles graduated from Yale College andreceived an MAin English from Stanford University.His first novel,Rules ofCivility,publishedin2011,was a New York Times bestsellerandwas named by The Wall Street Journalas one of the best books of2011.His second novel,AGentleman in Moscowpublished in 2016,was also a New York Times bestsellerand was namedas one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune The Washington Post,The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle,and NPR.His work has been translated into more than thirty five languages.Having worked as an investment professional for more than twenty years,Mr.Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan,where he lives with his wife and two children.

"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate."—The Wall Street Journal"If you're looking for a summer novel, this is it. Beautifully written, a story of a Russian aristocrat trapped in Moscow during the tumult of the 1930s. It brims with intelligence, erudition, and insight, an old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the term."—Fareed Zakaria, "Global Public Square," CNN"Fun, clever, and surprisingly upbeat . . . A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything. There’s fantastical romance, politics, espionage, parenthood and poetry. The book is technically historical fiction, but you would be just as accurate calling it a thriller or a love story.”—Bill Gates“The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count’s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we’re longing for.”—Ann Patchett“How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.”—The Washington Post“[A] wonderful book at any time . . . [I]t brought home to me how people find ways to be happy, make connections, and make a difference to one another’s lives, even in the strangest, saddest and most restrictive circumstances.”—Tana French, author of The Searcher“The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, twists of fate and silly antics.”—The Wall Street Journal

“The perfect book to curl up with while the world goes by outside your window.”—Refinery29“Who will save Rostov from the intrusions of state if not the seamstresses, chefs, bartenders and doormen? In the end, Towles’s greatest narrative effect is not the moments of wonder and synchronicity but the generous transformation of these peripheral workers, over the course of decades, into confidants, equals and, finally, friends. With them around, a life sentence in these gilded halls might make Rostov the luckiest man in Russia.”—The New York Times Book Review