Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. The three novels have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Towles lives in Manhattan 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
“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
“Enjoyable, elegant.”
—Seattle Times
“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
“This is an old fashioned sort of romance, filled with delicious
detail. Save this precious book for times you really, really want
to escape reality.”
—Louise Erdrich
“Towles gets good mileage from the considerable charm of his
protagonist and the peculiar world he inhabits.”
—The New Yorker
“Irresistible . . . In his second elegant period piece, Towles
continues to explore the question of how a person can lead an
authentic life in a time when mere survival is a feat in itself . .
. Towles’s tale, as lavishly filigreed as a Fabergé egg, gleams
with nostalgia for the golden age of Tolstoy and Turgenev.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and ‘Eloise’ meets all the Bond
villains.”
—TheSkimm
“And the intrigue! . . . [A Gentleman in Moscow] is laced with
sparkling threads (they will tie up) and tokens (they will matter):
special keys, secret compartments, gold coins, vials of coveted
liquid, old-fashioned pistols, duels and scars, hidden assignations
(discreet and smoky), stolen passports, a ruby necklace, mysterious
letters on elegant hotel stationery . . . a luscious stage set,
backdrop for a downright Casablanca-like drama.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle
“The same gorgeous, layered richness that marked Towles’ debut,
Rules of Civility, shapes [A Gentleman in Moscow].”
—Entertainment Weekly
Praise for Rules of Civility
“An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut."
—O, the Oprah Magazine
“With this snappy period piece, Towles resurrects the cinematic
black-and-white Manhattan of the golden age…[his] characters are
youthful Americans in tricky times, trying to create authentic
lives.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Sharp [and] sure-handed.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Put on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse
yourself in the eventful life of Katey Kontent."
—People
“[A] wonderful debut novel.”
—The Chicago Tribune
“Glittering…filled with snappy dialogue, sharp observations and an
array of terrifically drawn characters…Towles writes with grace and
verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of
radical change.”
—NPR.org
“A book that enchants on first reading and only improves on the
second.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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