Amor Towles

Chosen as an isolation read by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: ‘A wonderful book which gives the reader an understanding of life in post-revolution Moscow’ OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD -- ***Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh*** ‘This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don’t miss it’ Chris Cleave ‘No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original than Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow’ Sunday Times, Books of the Year ‘Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism’ The Times, Books of the Year '[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT) THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD

The worldwide bestseller

A Gentleman in Moscow

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But after the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm had hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they hatch an altogether different plan for Emmett's future. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.

A Novel

The Lincoln Highway

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow. A first novel. Reprint.

Rules of Civility

You Have Arrived at Your Destination

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in the midst of Hollywood’s golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.

Fictions

Table for Two

The further adventures of Eve Ross, best friend of Katey Kontent in Rules of Civility, the New York Times bestselling novel by Amor Towles Coming this fall, A Gentleman in Moscow – the highly anticipated new novel from Amor Towles Near the end of Amor Towles’s bestselling novel Rules of Civility, the fiercely independent Evelyn Ross boards a train from New York to Chicago to visit her parents, but never disembarks. Six months later, she appears in a photograph in a gossip magazine exiting the Tropicana Club on Sunset Boulevard on the arm of Olivia de Havilland. In this novella made up of six richly detailed and atmospheric stories, each told from a different perspective, Towles unfolds the events that take Eve to the heart of Old Hollywood. Beginning in the dining car of the Golden State Limited in September 1938, we follow Eve to the elegant rooms of the Beverly Hills Hotel, the fabled tables of Antonio’s, the amusement parks on the Santa Monica piers, the afro-Cuban dance clubs off Central Avenue, and ultimately the set of Gone with the Wind. With the glamour and grit of the studio system’s golden age as a backdrop, Towles introduces in each story a memorable new character whose fate may well be altered by their encounter with Eve. In following the thread of these varied encounters, we watch as Eve forges a new and unexpected life for herself in late 1930s Los Angeles.

A Penguin Special

Eve in Hollywood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

A Whimsy of the World

Por causa de um poema, um tribunal bolchevique condena o conde Aleksandr Rostov a prisão domiciliária. Ficará retido, por tempo indeterminado, no sumptuoso Hotel Metropol. A prisão pode ser dourada. Mas é uma prisão.Estamos em Junho de 1922. Despejado da sua luxuosa suíte, o conde é confinado a um quarto no sótão, iluminado por uma janela do tamanho de um tabuleiro de xadrez. É a partir dali que observa a dramática transformação da Rússia. Vê com tristeza os magníficos salões do hotel, antes animados por bailes de gala, serem agora esmagados pelas pesadas botas dos camaradas proletários. E vê-se obrigado a negociar a sua sobrevivência, num ambiente subitamente hostil.Aos poucos, porém, o aristocrata descobre aliados no hotel, com quem partilha o seu amor pelo belo – e a defesa de valores morais que nenhuma ideologia poderá vergar. Faz-se amigo do chef, dos porteiros, do barbeiro, do encarregado da garrafeira, e com eles conspira para devolver ao Metropol a sua antiga e majestosa glória. Ao mesmo tempo, toma sob a sua proteção uma menina desamparada, a quem provará que a vida não se resume à luta de classes.Amor Towles oferece-nos um dos mais requintados (e melancólicos) romances dos últimos anos.Uma obra épica, habitada por uma galeria de personagens inesquecíveis e servida por uma escrita de uma elegância cada vez mais rara nas letras contemporâneas.

Um Gentleman em Moscovo

Andy Weir

N. K. Jemisin

Blake Crouch

Veronica Roth

Paul Tremblay

Em coletânea inédita de contos de ficção científica, grandes nomes da literatura mostram até onde somos capazes de ir para mudar o mundo Para alguns, a tecnologia é o prenúncio do fim do mundo. Para outros, é apenas o começo de uma nova era. Renomado escritor de ficção científica, autor dos best-sellers Matéria escura e Recursão, Blake Crouch convidou grandes nomes da literatura contemporânea para traçar histórias audaciosas que mergulham nos desdobramentos que os avanços tecnológicos acarretam à humanidade. Em “Summer Frost”, Crouch traz uma trama marcante que desafia nossa noção de humanidade enquanto assistimos à obsessão de uma programadora de videogames por uma de suas personagens. “Pele de emergência”, de N. K. Jemisin, explora a missão de um soldado em visita a uma Terra abandonada. Uma viagem potencialmente sem volta, mas pelos motivos mais inesperados. Em “Arca”, Veronica Roth mostra o poder das lembranças, que, quando coletadas e reunidas, são capazes de revelar o passado e também ajudam a construir o futuro. Amor Towles surpreende em “Você chegou ao seu destino” ao mergulhar na manipulação genética quando um casal se vê diante da possibilidade de decidir a trajetória de seu futuro bebê. “A última conversa”, de Paul Tremblay, é uma narrativa repleta de suspense que nos faz questionar os limites da consciência e de nossa identidade. Já “Randomizando”, de Andy Weir, fecha a obra com uma história eletrizante envolvendo cassinos, hackers e computação quântica. De potência criativa memorável, os contos desta coletânea se pautam em temas diversos, como inteligência artificial, colonização de outros planetas, engenharia genética e programação, para nos fazer encarar o que há de mais brutal e profundamente humano em nós e em nossa sociedade. Imersos em tamanhos medos, paixões, sonhos e ambições, vem à tona a complexidade de se estabelecer limites e de realizar escolhas diante da busca pelo futuro que desejamos.

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To przez niego hrabia Rostow musiał zamienić przestronny apartament w Metropolu, najbardziej ekskluzywnym hotelu Moskwy, na mikroskopijny pokój na poddaszu, z oknem wielkości szachownicy. Dożywotnio. Taki wyrok wydał bolszewicki sąd. Rostow wie, że jeśli człowiek nie jest panem swojego losu, to z pewnością stanie się jego sługą. Pozbawiony majątku, wizyt w operze, wykwintnych kolacji i wszystkiego, co dotychczas definiowało jego status, stara się odnaleźć w nowej rzeczywistości. Z pomocą zaprzyjaźnionego kucharza, pięknej aktorki i niezwykłej dziewczynki na nowo buduje swój świat. Gdy za murami hotelu rozgrywają się największe tragedie dwudziestego wieku, hrabia udowadnia, że bez względu na okoliczności warto być przyzwoitym. A największego bogactwa nikt nam nie odbierze, bo nosimy je w sobie. Dżentelmen w Moskwie to przede wszystkim hołd złożony drugiemu człowiekowi, ale też pieśń miłosna o Rosji – kraju wielkich artystów i szlachetnych ludzi. Powieść uznana została za jedną z najlepszych książek 2016 roku przez najważniejsze media anglosaskie. Od dnia premiery ciągle znajduje się na liście bestsellerów „New York Timesa”. ___________ „Kto ocali Rostowa, jeśli nie szwaczki, kucharze, barman i portierzy? Mając ich obok siebie, Rostow, skazany na dożywocie w pozłacanych wnętrzach hotelu, stanie się najszczęśliwszym człowiekiem w Rosji”. „The New York Times Book Review” „Amor Towles pokazuje, jak żyć naprawdę w czasach, gdy już samo przetrwanie jest sztuką. Jego powieść przepełniona jest nostalgia za złotą erą Tołstoja i Turgieniewa i przypomina czytelnikowi, że choć teraz nadszedł czas Putina, to Puszkina zapamiętamy na zawsze”. „O, The Oprah Magazine” „Przeczytaj tę cudowną książkę w chwili, gdy naprawdę będzie ci potrzebna ucieczka od rzeczywistości...” Louise Erdrich, laureatka m.in. National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award „Powieść pełna przygód, romansów, uśmiechów losu i żartów”. „The Wall Street Journal” „Powieść wspaniała pod każdym względem, pełna uroku, życiowej mądrości I filozoficznej zadumy (...) to powieść, w której okrucieństwo epoki nie jest w stanie zniszczyć potęgi ludzkich relacji i wspomnień, jakie się z nimi wiążą”. „Kirkus Reviews” „Areszt domowy nigdy nie był tak pełen uroku jak tutaj. Wciągająca saga, rozgrywająca się na przestrzeni trzydziestu lat i niemal w całości osadzona w najbardziej luksusowym hotelu w Moskwie. Przyjemność czytania i potężna dawka empatii”. „Publishers Weekly”

Dżentelmen w Moskwie

Moskovada Bir Beyefendi

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

En gentleman i Moskva

Een jonge vrouw, die op zoek is naar het goede leven, ontmoet in het New York van 1938 een miljonair die gelooft in de leefregels van de 18e eeuwse president George Washington.

A New York Times Number One Bestseller

   Este anul 1922. Contele Rostov nu se caieste ca e aristocrat si un tribunal bolsevic il condamna la arest la domiciliu. Pentru bonomul erudit care nu a lucrat niciodata, celebrul hotel Metropol de la Moscova devine si domiciliu, si loc de munca. Si viata lui trece strivita de decenii crude si tulburi din viata Rusiei, iar cititorul il insoteste pe contele sarmant in lumea veche si in lumea noua, unde nimic nu mai e la fel. Roman al unui sfarsit dureros si al unui inceput inevitabil, Un gentleman la Moscova este povestea cuceritoare a unui invins care, paradoxal, invinge dezumanizarea fara sa iasa dintr-un hotel. „Ce minune ca intr-o vreme ca a noastra romanul acesta asa de fin construit se desfasoara cu eleganta din lumea veche!“ - The Washington Post In curand intr-un serial cu Kenneth Branagh in rolul principal

Un gentleman la Moscova

"Relata el aprendizaje de una joven ambiciosa que lucha por sobrevivir en la ciudad de las mil caras, una selva donde las mejores oportunidades conviven con infinitas tentaciones y peligros."--

Normas de cortesía

Artighetsreglerna

“A diverse and glorious selection . . . a gift of imagination, wit, and wonder. The collection is filled with miniature masterpieces. . . .  This must-have anthology is a treasure trove not to be missed.” —Library Journal (starred review)

The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti, Francisco Gonzalez, and more.

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Amor Towles has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Towles, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.

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