Description - Un caballero en Moscu / A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Escrita con suma elegancia y calido sentido del humor, esta novela excepcional nos habla de nuestra inagotable capacidad para hacer frente a los infortunios de la existencia.
Un libro que ha conquistado a dos millones de lectores y que pronto se convertira en serie.
Condenado a muerte por los bolcheviques en 1922, el conde Aleksandr Ilich Rostov elude su tragico final por un inusitado giro del destino. Gracias a un poema subversivo escrito diez anos antes, el comite revolucionario conmuta la pena maxima por un arresto domiciliario inaudito: el aristocrata debera pasar el resto de sus dias en el hotel Metropol, microcosmos de la sociedad rusa y conspicuo exponente del lujo y la decadencia que el nuevo regimen se ha propuesto erradicar.
En esta curiosa historia se basa la segunda novela de Amor Towles, que despues de recibir innumerables elogios por Normas de cortesia, su opera prima, se consolida como uno de los escritores norteamericanos mas interesantes del momento.
Erudito, refinado y caballeroso, Rostov es un cliente asiduo del legendario Metropol, situado a poca distancia del Kremlin y el Bolshoi. Sin profesion conocida pese a estar ya en la treintena, se ha dedicado con autentica pasion a los placeres de la lectura y de la buena mesa.
Ahora, en esta nueva y forzada tesitura, ira construyendo una apariencia de normalidad a traves de los lazos afectivos con algunos de los variopintos personajes del hotel, lo que le permitira descubrir los jugosos secretos que guardan sus aposentos. Asi, a lo largo de mas de tres decadas, el conde vera pasar la vida confinado tras los inmensos ventanales del Metropol mientras en el exterior se desarrolla uno de los periodos mas turbulentos del pais.
Ademas de mantenerse durante casi cincuenta semanas en las principales listas de exitos de Estados Unidos y de superar el millon de ejemplares vendidos, Un caballero en Moscu ha obtenido numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el del Libro del Ano segun The Times y The Sunday Times.
Resenas:
"Tiene todo lo que deberia tener una novela: es ingeniosa, interesante, poetica y generosa. Un autentico placer." - The Mail on Sunday
"Una obra muy seductora, plena de magia, inteligencia y perspicacia." -The Sunday Times
"Fascinante. Preciosa. Enjundiosa. Towles es un verdadero maestro." -The New York Times Book Review
DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility, a novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel-a beautifully transporting novel.
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series
"Perhaps the ultimate quarantine read . . . A Gentleman in Moscow is about the importance of community; the distance of a kind act; and resilience. It's a manual for getting through the days to come." -O, The Oprah Magazine
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.
"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
"Marvelous." -Chicago Tribune
"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, twists of fate and silly antics." -The Wall Street Journal
"A winning, stylish novel." -NPR.org
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