Angelika, mlada žena rođena u Londonu, čitav se život veoma zanimala za majčinu tajnu prošlost. A dok planira vjenčanje, zna da mora posjetiti zabačeno selo na Kreti, u kojem je njezina majka odrasla. Angiena otuđena grčka baka Maria je na umoru. Raširenih ruku dočekuje Angie – vrijeme je da se oslobodi tereta te ispripovijeda svoju priču, kako je ne bi ponijela u grob. No dok Angie na Kreti sluša bakine priče, njezin zaručnik sve se rjeđe javlja, a i kad se javi nije sam. Iako je vjenčanje pred vratima otkrit će se mnoge tajne koje će taj, dugo željeni događaj, dovesti u pitanje…
<b>From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel</b> With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” 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. Brimming with humour, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
