TY - SOUND AB - "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count 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 a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery..."-- AU - Towles, Amor, AU - Smith, Nicholas Guy, CN - PS3620.O945 CN - PS3620.O945 ET - Unabridged. ID - 775955 KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Home detention KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Hotels N1 - Title from container. N1 - Compact disc. N2 - "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count 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 a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery..."-- SN - 9780735288522 SN - 0735288526 T1 - A gentleman in Moscow :a novel / TI - A gentleman in Moscow :a novel / ER -