A Gentleman in Moscow

埃默•托尔斯（Amor Towles），1964年出生于美国波士顿。本科和硕士学位分别在耶鲁大学和斯坦福大学获得。被《华尔街日报》称为“纽约最后的绅士”。曾因处女作《上流法则》获得菲茨杰拉德奖。《莫斯科绅士》一经发售就登上了《纽约时报》畅销榜，被《华盛顿邮报》等多家知名媒体评为年度畅销图书，至今销量仍居高不下。

出版者:Viking

作者:Amor Towles

页数:480

出版时间:2016-9-6

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670026197

图书标签:英文原版小说俄国美国文学外国文学美国Amor_Towles原版

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

“In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight . . .this book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." – Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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 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.

读后感

绅士是西方旧时代贵族男性追求的完美形象，举止优雅、博学多识、谈吐幽默、重视礼仪，总之是魅力非凡。一个贵族的绅士，往往能够交游四方，享受优渥的生活，也不用工作，这是旧时代赋予他们的特权。 一旦时代变了，绅士们又该如何呢？埃默•托尔斯的新作《莫斯科绅士》，讲的...

“照亮每一个地方， 照亮末日最黑暗的深处， 照吧——” 当马雅可夫斯基的诗歌出现在一位半路出家的美国作家笔下，且作者已从事金融业二十年，这种略显古怪的搭配在翻开《莫斯科绅士》十来页后，就会消匿得无影无踪。出生于1964年的埃默·托尔斯其实有专业的文学背景——拥有英...  

“照亮每一个地方， 照亮末日最黑暗的深处， 照吧——” 当马雅可夫斯基的诗歌出现在一位半路出家的美国作家笔下，且作者已从事金融业二十年，这种略显古怪的搭配在翻开《莫斯科绅士》十来页后，就会消匿得无影无踪。出生于1964年的埃默·托尔斯其实有专业的文学背景——拥有英...  

用户评价

非常优雅的一本书，用词、叙事的方式都很温柔。情节一般，读到中途几乎想放弃，但是伯爵的个人魅力还是把我拉了回来。最后读完还是很满足的，书中GRE词汇超多，学了很多形容词。整本看完，印象最深刻的，还是Rostov和Marina讨论Nina那里: “You must trust that life will find her in time. For eventually, it finds us all.”

英文有声书。DNF。看书评的关键字都是“优雅”“贵族”之类的，听了几章之后觉得我怕是看了本假书吧！一点没看出来优雅，感觉一直就是在装13（恨不得就是那种直接靠贵族的叙述来说“贵族们都是这样这样的”）。亏得我还坚持了一阵生怕我错过了什么。

2020年读过的第一本书，作为一本fiction，可以和the book thief媲美了。

除了被禁足在酒店和那把万能钥匙不现实以外，整个故事非常精彩

读到Sofia出现，变得有趣起来。另外作者文笔用词很高超，看完能学到很多新词。