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Strappato alla campagna, un contadino dall’indole mansueta viene convinto dalla moglie, fervente bolscevica, a trasferirsi a Mosca per unirsi alla Rivoluzione, ma finirà dall’altra parte del mondo, a New York. Un aspirante scrittore in cerca di esperienza trova lavoro in una libreria che tratta edizioni rare, del tutto ignaro del brutto guaio in cui lo caccerà il suo capo. Un viaggiatore, bloccato all’aeroporto LaGuardia per maltempo, fa amicizia con un altro una serata improvvisata che prenderà una piega davvero stravagante. Una giovane donna sospetta che il patrigno tradisca la madre; deciderà quindi di seguirlo, innescando una catena di eventi sfortunati e rivelatori. Un banchiere smaschera un anziano che registra abusivamente gli spettacoli alla Carnegie Hall, ma com’è noto le apparenze ingannano, e ogni azione avrà conseguenze. Un pensionato cerca di manipolare un parente affinché venda un raro dipinto rinascimentale a un collezionista; nulla però andrà come previsto. Dopo Eve a Hollywood, Amor Towles si sposta sull’East Coast e mette in scena una New York con le sue mille facce, popolata da un turbinio di personaggi – i ricchi e famosi che si mescolano con gli ambiziosi e gli innocenti tra inganni, illusioni e desideri, talvolta discussi davanti a un bicchiere in un bar.

256 pages, ebook

Published November 4, 2025

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Amor Towles

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Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years, he now devotes himself fulltime to writing. His first novel, Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film and its French translation received the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was also a New York Times bestseller and was ranked as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Louis Dispatch, and NPR. Both novels have been translated into over fifteen languages.

Mr. Towles, who lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children, is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting, 1950’s jazz, 1970’s cop shows, rock & roll on vinyl, obsolete accessories, manifestoes, breakfast pastries, pasta, liquor, snow-days, Tuscany, Provence, Disneyland, Hollywood, the cast of Casablanca, 007, Captain Kirk, Bob Dylan (early, mid, and late phases), the wee hours, card games, cafés, and the cookies made by both of his grandmothers.

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