TY - BOOK AU - Towles,Amor TI - A gentleman in Moscow SN - 9780670026197 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, New York PB - Viking, an imprint of Random House LLC KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Fiction KW - Home detention KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Hotels KW - Russia KW - Moscow (Russia) KW - History KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Moscow KW - fast KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft 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 -