Amor Towles on "A Gentleman in Moscow" at Book Expo America 2016
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2016
- Host Rich Fahle interviews Amor Towles about his latest novel, “A Gentleman in Moscow” at Book Expo America 2016.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
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 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.
Fiction, aristocracy, home detention, interpersonal relations, hotels, historical fiction, history, Moscow 
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And this is the real story: "In the autumn of 1933, a Russian poet, Osip Mandelshtam composed the poem "Stalin Epigram", which he read at a few small private gatherings in Moscow. The poem was a sharp criticism of the "Kremlin highlander". Six months later, in 1934, Mandelstam was arrested. On 2 August 1938 Mandelstam was sentenced to five years in correction camps. He arrived at the Vtoraya Rechka (Second River) transit camp near Vladivostok in Russia's Far East and managed to get a note out to his wife asking for warm clothes; he never received them. He died from cold and hunger. I wonder why he was not sentenced to spend 30 years in the Metropol....
Dorota Ponikiewska interesting and sad.thanks for the info!
Thank you for the information.
Great.
Mandelshtam of course was one of many tragic stories that unfortunately will never be told. If you haven't already, read Robert Conquest brilliant work, The Great Terror.
No
No?
aparently no
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Maybe Jean couldn’t find the thimble?
Or maybe he likes different books