Amor Towles Books

More than half a million readers have fallen in love with the New York Times bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight' Mail on Sunday 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight' Sunday Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman' New York Times Book Review 'A comic masterpiece' Daily Express 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry' Sunday Express 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. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER 'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH 'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETT In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. They are getting ready to leave their old life behind and head out to sunny California. But they're not alone. Two runaways from the youth work farm, Duchess and Wolly, have followed Emmett all the way to Nebraska with a plan of their own, one that will take the four of them on an unexpected and fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. 'Already feels like an American coming of age classic' RED 'The best novel I've read in years' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth' THE NEW YORK TIMES

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 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 compromise 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.

Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles is the unforgettable debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway In a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: · how to sneak into the cinema, and steal silk stockings from Bendel's · how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year · that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine By the end of the year she'll have learned: · how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best · that chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison · that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat . . . 'If the unthinkable happened and I could never read another new work of fiction . . . I'd simply re-read this sparkling, stylish book, with yet another round of martinis as dry as the author's wit' Herald 'Terrific. A smart, witty, charming dry-martini of a novel' David Nicholls, author of One Day 'Achingly stylish . . . A witty, slick production, replete with dark intrigue, period details, and a suitably Katharine Hepburn-like heroine' Guardian 'A love letter to the city and the era . . . Towles creates a narrative that sparkles with sentences so beautiful you'll stop and re-read them' Stylist

On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar with her boardinghouse roommate stretching three dollars as far as it will go when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a tempered smile, happens to sit at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a yearlong journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool toward the upper echelons of New York society and the executive suites of Condé Nast—rarefied environs where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. Wooed in turn by a shy, principled multi-millionaire, and an irrepressible Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, befriended by a single-minded widow who is ahead of her time, and challenged by an imperious mentor, Katey experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize how our most promising choices inevitably lay the groundwork for our regrets.

Exploring themes of ego, fleeting encounters, and the complexities of modern relationships, this collection features six stories set in New York City around the turn of the millennium, alongside a novella in Los Angeles. "Eve in Hollywood" follows Evelyn Ross as she unexpectedly alters her path during Hollywood's golden age, narrated from seven perspectives. The stories often revolve around pivotal conversations at a table for two, showcasing Amor Towles's trademark wit and sophistication in this engaging addition to his historical fiction repertoire.

„To ważne, aby wbrew wszystkiemu pozostać wiernym swoim zasadom. Polecam!” – Urszula Dudziak. Powieść, którą przeczytało ponad milion osób na całym świecie, to debiut autora Dżentelmena w Moskwie. Akcja rozgrywa się w Nowym Jorku, w ostatnią noc 1937 roku, kiedy to Katey Kontent, młoda sekretarka, przypadkowo spotyka bankiera Tinkera Greya. Mimo różnic w ich światach, to spotkanie prowadzi do rocznej podróży w nieznane. W otoczeniu najbogatszych i najbardziej wpływowych, w czasach wielkiego kryzysu, Katey musi zaufać swojej inteligencji i pozostać wierna swoim zasadom. „Wspaniała powieść o życiu na Manhattanie w czasach wielkiego kryzysu” – The Wall Street Journal. „Tętniąca życiem, pełna czułości i błyskotliwych obserwacji historia młodej sekretarki z Brooklynu” – The New York Times Book Review. Amor Towles, amerykański pisarz i publicysta, ukończył Yale College i Uniwersytet Stanforda. Przed karierą literacką pracował jako specjalista ds. inwestycji. Mieszka na Manhattanie z żoną i dwójką dzieci. Jego powieści sprzedały się w ponad czterech milionach egzemplarzy i zostały przetłumaczone na przeszło trzydzieści języków. W przygotowaniu nowa powieść autora – Lincoln Highway, która ukaże się w Polsce w 2022 roku.

Die legendären dreißiger Jahre in Hollywood – leichtfüßig, witzig und elegant erzählt. „Amor Towles ist ein Meistererzähler.“ New York Times Book Review Eine umwerfende Gesellschaftssatire vom Autor des Bestsellers „Ein Gentleman in Moskau“: Amor Towles erzählt mit augenzwinkernder Eleganz, wie eine Frau aus der Provinz die Glamourwelt Hollywoods austrickst. Nachdem Eve mit ihrem Freund in New York Schluss gemacht hat, bricht sie nach Los Angeles auf. Wenig später wird sie mit der berühmten Olivia de Havilland in den angesagten Lokalen Hollywoods gesehen. Es ist die Zeit, als „Vom Winde verweht“ gedreht wird und die Studios sich gegenseitig die Schauspielerinnen abjagen. Die ebenso raffinierte wie rätselhafte Eve gibt kaum etwas von sich preis, verwirrt jeden Möchtegern und Betrüger, der ihr begegnet, bis sie diejenige ist, die zuletzt lacht.

Wszystko zmienił jeden wiersz, który skazał hrabiego Rostowa na dożywotnie życie w mikroskopijnym pokoju na poddaszu luksusowego hotelu w Moskwie. Pozbawiony dotychczasowego majątku i statusu, Rostow stara się odnaleźć sens w nowej rzeczywistości, korzystając z pomocy przyjaciół: kucharza, pięknej aktorki i niezwykłej dziewczynki. W obliczu tragedii dwudziestego wieku, które rozgrywają się za murami hotelu, udowadnia, że warto być przyzwoitym, a prawdziwe bogactwo nosimy w sobie. Powieść to hołd dla drugiego człowieka oraz pieśń miłosna o Rosji, kraju wielkich artystów. Uznana za jedną z najlepszych książek 2016 roku, nieprzerwanie znajduje się na liście bestsellerów „New York Timesa”. Krytycy podkreślają, że postać Rostowa, otoczona przez skromnych, ale pełnych empatii ludzi, staje się najszczęśliwszym człowiekiem w Rosji. Autor, Amor Towles, ukazuje, jak żyć w trudnych czasach, pełnych nostalgii za minioną erą. Książka jest opisana jako pełna przygód, romansów i życiowej mądrości, a jej urok sprawia, że areszt domowy nigdy nie był tak fascynujący. To wciągająca saga, która dostarcza zarówno przyjemności, jak i głębokiej refleksji.