جنتلمان في موسكو

by Amor Towles, إيهاب عبد الحميد (Translator)

في 21 يونيو عام 1922 اقتيد الكونت ألكسندر إلييتش روستوف - حامل وسام القديس أندروز. عضو نادي الفروسية. مستشار الصيد الإمبراطوري - عبر بوابة الكرملين إلى الميدان الأحمر. ثم إلى الأبواب الدوارة الأنيقة لفندق المتروبول. بعد أن اعتبرته محكمة استثنائية بلشفية أرستقراطيا لم يظهر ندمه ونوبته. فحكمت عليه بالإقامة الجبرية. لكن بدلا من جناحه المعتاد. عليه أن يعيش في غرفة فوق السطح. بينما تعيش روسيا عقودا من الاضطرابات العنيفة. فهل يمكن لهكذا حياة أن تكون بالغة الثراء؟

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Book Club, Historical, Russia, Audiobook, Literary Fiction

592 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2016

About the author

Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years, he now devotes himself fulltime to writing. His first novel, Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film and its French translation received the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was also a New York Times bestseller and was ranked as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Louis Dispatch, and NPR. Both novels have been translated into over fifteen languages.

Mr. Towles, who lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children, is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting, 1950’s jazz, 1970’s cop shows, rock & roll on vinyl, obsolete accessories, manifestoes, breakfast pastries, pasta, liquor, snow-days, Tuscany, Provence, Disneyland, Hollywood, the cast of Casablanca, 007, Captain Kirk, Bob Dylan (early, mid, and late phases), the wee hours, card games, cafés, and the cookies made by both of his grandmothers.