Au début des années 1920, le comte Alexandre Illitch Rostov, aristocrate impénitent, est condamné par un tribunal bolchévique à vivre en résidence surveillée dans le luxueux hôtel Metropol de Moscou, où le comte a ses habitudes, à quelques encablures du Kremlin. Acceptant joyeusement son sort, le comte Rostov hante les couloirs, salons feutrés, restaurants et salles de réception de l'hôtel, et noue des liens avec le personnel de sa prison dorée   officiant bientôt comme serveur au prestigieux restaurant Boyarski , des diplomates étrangers de passage dont le comte sait obtenir les confidences à force de charme, d'esprit, et de vodka , une belle actrice inaccessible ou presque ­, et côtoie les nouveaux maîtres de la Russie. Mais, plus que toute autre, c'est sa rencontre avec Nina, une fillette de neuf ans, qui bouleverse le cours de sa vie bien réglée au Metropol.
Trois décennies durant, le comte vit nombre d'aventures retranché derrière les grandes baies vitrées du Metropol, microcosme où se rejouent les bouleversements la Russie soviétique.  Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Nathalie Cunnington
Lire la suite Fermer

The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television series One of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates "The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." -- The Wall Street Journal He cant leave his hotel. You wont want to. 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 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and 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 hotels doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry 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 counts endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
Lire la suite Fermer

Amor Towles was born and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. An investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.>