A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller

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Amor Towles (born 1964) is an American novelist. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011), [1] A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), [2] and The Lincoln Highway (2021). [3] Early life and education [ edit ]

Vlessing, Etan (2018-04-03). "Kenneth Branagh to Star in TV Adaptation of 'A Gentleman in Moscow' ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2023-01-03. As such, it did work for me. Alexander was a lovely character, full of quiet dignity and interesting philosophical insights. He built an actual life for himself inside of the Metropol, he found friends, life purpose and actual work. It is also possible that he found love. The same gorgeous, layered richness that marked Towles’ debut, Rules of Civility, shapes [ A Gentleman in Moscow].”

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That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love.” Whichever wine was within, it was decidedly not identical to its neighbors. On the contrary, the contents of the bottle in his hand was the product of a history as unique and complex as that of a nation, or a man. In its color, aroma, and taste, it would certainly express the idiosyncratic geology and prevailing climate of its home terrain. But in addition, it would express all the natural phenomena of its vintage. In a sip, it would evoke the timing of that winter's thaw, the extent of that summer's rain, the prevailing winds, and the frequency of clouds. Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself.” BTW, one of my favorite short stories of the twentieth century is Nathan Englander’s “The Twenty-Seventh Man.” It can be found in his short story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, which is available in many libraries. “The Twenty-Seventh Man” is also a fable about Soviet Russsia and men (in this case all writers) who were arrested. It is obviously a fable, and does not read like something out of reality (it isn’t intended to), and yet for me, it spoke far more powerfully than A Gentleman in Moscow because even though it was made obvious that the story wasn’t real, it nevertheless spoke to what I believe are truths about the predicament of such men in the USSR in a way that A Gentleman in Moscow did not.

I loved it. Stayed up until 3am finishing it. It’s a fantasy story that spends more time looking at its characters than wallowing in the fantasy aspect. On the one hand a story about bullying and the shutdown response that comes from that; on the other hand a story about building social confidence and learning to cope with the inevitable miscommunications that come from daily interactions. – ajostu The Huntress by Kate QuinnEve in Hollywood: A Penguin Special (collection of six interlinked short stories). Penguin. 2013. ISBN 978-1-101-63092-1. The last book I couldn’t put down was The Huntress, by Kate Quinn, about a small group on Nazi hunters in Vienna in 1950, hunting down a woman war criminal; and this woman’s reinvention of herself in the US after the war. Riveting historical fiction, which also features the story of a Soviet night witch. – EthosDaimon A Brief History Of Seven Killings by Marlon James and Apeirogon by Colum McCann Melinda and I sometimes read the same book at the same time. It’s usually a lot of fun, but it can get us in trouble when one of us is further along than the other—which recently happened when we were both reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.