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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
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Fict Tow
ISBN: 9780670026197
Publication Date: 2016-09-06

When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, Count Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.

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