New Releases by Amor Towles

"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 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"--

Dvadeset prvog lipnja 1922. godine grofa Aleksandra Rostova, nositelja odličja svetog Andrije, člana Konjičkog kluba i voditelja lova, izveli su iz Kremlja i otpratili preko Crvenog trga pa kroz lijepa okretna vrata hotela Metropol. Nakon što je boljševički sud zaključio da se grof nije pokajao, osudili su ga na doživotni kućni pritvor. Ali, umjesto u svojemu uobičajenom apartmanu, sada mora živjeti u tavanskoj sobi dok Rusija proživljava desetljeća burnih previranja. Unatoč tome što u životu nije radio ni jedan dan, njegova erudicija, neuništiv duh i duhovitost pomoći će mu da, malo-pomalo, počne razumijevati zgusnutu rusku povijest koja se odvija pred vratima hotela. Iako mu novi poredak donosi brojna životna ograničenja, njegov unutarnji, emocionalni svijet istodobno doživljava preobrazbu koja ga od dokonog bogataša pretvara u čovjeka s ozbiljnim zadatkom koji mora izvršiti.

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 hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully 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 hotel’s 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 count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

Un vibrante homenaje a la Nueva York de los años treinta. Con diálogos afilados como puñales y un ritmo efervescente, Normas de cortesía 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. En la Nochevieja de 1937, Katey Kontent, mecanógrafa en un bufete de abogados de Wall Street, y Eve Ross, su compañera de pensión, salen dispuestas a exprimir a fondo la libertad que promete Nueva York. Se dirigen a The Hotspot, un bar de tercera fila donde se toman el jazz lo bastante en serio como para que nadie moleste a dos chicas de buen ver, y donde la ginebra es suficientemente barata como para beber un dry martini cada hora. Cuando los tres dólares que llevaban se agotan, aparece en escena Theodore Tinker Gray, un joven cachorro de la aristocracia de Nueva Inglaterra, luciendo una sonrisa arrebatadora y un abrigo que Katey y Eve no podrían pagar con sus sueldos de un año. Juntos acabarán celebrando la llegada del año nuevo en Times Square, en una noche que marcará el principio de una amistad que transformará sus vidas. Este encuentro fortuito supondrá para Katey el acceso a círculos selectos de la sociedad neoyorquina, en los que, gracias a su agudeza, sus nervios de acero y su intelecto, logrará que se le abran muchas puertas. No obstante, inmersa en un universo resplandeciente, un mundo frívolo y disoluto habitado por personajes de dudosa procedencia, Katey tendrá que descubrir las reglas del juego para adaptarse a los desafíos de la gran ciudad. La crítica ha dicho... «Una ferviente evocación de la alquimia social basada en los encuentros casuales que se producían en los garitos del Village, las cafeterías de Wall Street, los elegantes clubs de Manhattan y los locales clandestinos del Lower East Side.» -The New York Times Book Review «Escuchen algo de Billie Holliday, sírvanse un dry martini y sumérjanse en la azarosa vida de Katey Kontent. El autor demuestra conocer tan bien el mundo privilegiado que describe como los expresivos personajes, ocasionalmente insensatos, que lo habitan.» -People «Un debut impactante [...] destaca por su potente argumento, sus personajes auténticos y una voz influenciada por Capote y Fitzgerald, si bien es claramente fiel a sí misma.» -Publishers Weekly DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book for Mom on Mother''s Day about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.

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.

Un vibrante homenaje a la Nueva York de los años treinta. Con diálogos afilados como puñales y un ritmo efervescente, Normas de cortesía 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. En la Nochevieja de 1937, Katey Kontent, mecanógrafa en un bufete de abogados de Wall Street, y Eve Ross, su compañera de pensión, salen dispuestas a exprimir a fondo la libertad que promete Nueva York. Se dirigen a The Hotspot, un bar de tercera fila donde se toman el jazz lo bastante en serio como para que nadie moleste a dos chicas de buen ver, y donde la ginebra es suficientemente barata como para beber un dry martini cada hora. Cuando los tres dólares que llevaban se agotan, aparece en escena Theodore Tinker Gray, un joven cachorro de la aristocracia de Nueva Inglaterra, luciendo una sonrisa arrebatadora y un abrigo que Katey y Eve no podrían pagar con sus sueldos de un año. Juntos acabarán celebrando la llegada del año nuevo en Times Square, en una noche que marcará el principio de una amistad que transformará sus vidas. Este encuentro fortuito supondrá para Katey el acceso a círculos selectos de la sociedad neoyorquina, en los que, gracias a su agudeza, sus nervios de acero y su intelecto, logrará que se le abran muchas puertas. No obstante, inmersa en un universo resplandeciente, un mundo frívolo y disoluto habitado por personajes de dudosa procedencia, Katey tendrá que descubrir las reglas del juego para adaptarse a los desafíos de la gran ciudad. La crítica ha dicho... «Una ferviente evocación de la alquimia social basada en los encuentros casuales que se producían en los garitos del Village, las cafeterías de Wall Street, los elegantes clubs de Manhattan y los locales clandestinos del Lower East Side.» The New York Times Book Review «Escuchen algo de Billie Holliday, sírvanse un dry martini y sumérjanse en la azarosa vida de Katey Kontent. El autor demuestra conocer tan bien el mundo privilegiado que describe como los expresivos personajes, ocasionalmente insensatos, que lo habitan.» People «Un debut impactante [...] destaca por su potente argumento, sus personajes auténticos y una voz influenciada por Capote y Fitzgerald, si bien es claramente fiel a sí misma.» Publishers Weekly «Una muy buena primera novela que merece atención [...]. La gran virtud de Normas de cortesía reside en la detallada y certera evocación del Manhattan de los años treinta.» The Wall Street Journal «Brillante y bien logrado [...]. Un debut de especial elegancia [...]. Los detalles históricos son precisos y evocativos, pero nunca restan interés a los personajes, cuyos problemas son las eternas cuestiones de identidad y valoración de uno mismo.» The Boston Globe

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year''s Eve 1938 catapults 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.

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.

Após os duros anos de depressão, a cidade de Nova York reinventa-se através da vida glamourosa dos clubes de jazz e dos coquetéis em apartamentos luxuosos. Neste cenário, a jovem Katey Kontent, filha de um imigrante russo criada no Brooklyn, aprende a acompanhar o ritmo da mudança no que será um ano crucial em sua vida: 1938. Bestseller do The New York Times, Regras de cortesia foi escolhido um dos dez melhores romances do ano pelo The Wall Street Journal em 2011 além de ganhar o prêmio Fitzgerald, na França. Tudo começa quando, ao lado da amiga Eve Ross, Katey decide passar a última noite de 1937 em uma boate quase vazia no Greenwich Village, ouvindo um quarteto de jazz. É lá que as duas conhecem Tinker Grey, um jovem e charmoso banqueiro, cuja educação e gentileza o tornam ainda mais atraente. A partir daí, os três começam uma relação que mistura amizade e flerte e mexerá para sempre com suas vidas. Nos primeiros dias de 1938, um acontecimento inesperado encerra a disputa de Eve e Katey pelo coração de Tinker: um caminhão atinge o carro em que o trio estava, com o rapaz ao volante, e Eve leva a pior. Ao perceber que o jogo mudou e sua presença não se encaixa mais como antes, Katey decide se afastar. Conforme os meses passam, 1938 se revela um divisor de águas para Katey, que deixa seu emprego de secretária em uma firma e acaba enveredando pelo mercado editorial. Com o novo trabalho, entra em cena um círculo de amizades completamente diferente, que a coloca em contato com a alta sociedade nova-iorquina. Contado em flashback, Regras de cortesia é o retrato nostálgico de uma cidade mítica, ao mesmo tempo caldeirão cultural e templo de uma elite sofisticada e glamourosa, com uma protagonista que não tem medo de buscar seu lugar ao sol. O resultado é um conto de fadas moderno, uma história de superação, capaz de agradar a fãs de Francis Fitzgerald e Truman Capote, de jazz e histórias de amor.