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""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) 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 With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles...
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"Vienna, 1954: After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union's totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Inspired by her daughter's birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and...
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2023.
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"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--
In this Cold War mystery, Viktor Moroz, a Jewish refusenik, stumbles upon a murder scene in Moscow. When the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene, they pluck him off the street, and hes given a choice: find the real murderer or become the suspect of convenience. To solve the case, Viktor ropes in a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks from his community. As Viktor struggles...
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2020.
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"Aleksandr Rostov, aristócrata y erudito irredento, es un cliente asiduo del Metropol, el hotel más espléndido de Moscú. Nunca ha trabajado desde que dejó de estudiar, y aplica todo su ingenio y refinamiento a su pasión por los vinos, la gastronomía y la literatura. En 1922, los bolcheviques lo condenan a muerte; sin embargo, un poema revolucionario escrito una década antes lo salva de la pena capital, que el tribunal le conmuta por la de...
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Moscow Trilogy volume 1
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[2014]
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"The engrossing, heartbreaking new novel about two forbidden and deadly love affairs set in the corridors of Moscow's most elite school in 1945 by the brilliant and bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore"--
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