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"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...

A visiting nurse forms a bond with a young female cult member in this "fascinating" novel (Rosellen Brown, New York Times–bestselling author of The Lake on Fire). Home-care nurse Emily Klein has been assigned to make prenatal visits to an unusual client: Pippa Glenning, a cult member whose daughter died during a Solstice ceremony-an event for which she is under arrest, spared imprisonment for now and allowed home confinement only because of...

"Wszystko przez jeden wiersz... To z jego powodu hrabia Rostow musiał zamienić przestronny apartament w Metropolu, najbardziej ekskluzywnym hotelu Moskwy, na mikroskopijny pokój na poddaszu, z oknem wielkości szachownicy. Dożywotnio. Taki wyrok wydał bolszewicki sąd. Rostow wie, że jeśli człowiek nie jest panem swojego losu, to z pewnością stanie się jego sługą. Pozbawiony majątku, wizyt w operze, wykwintnych kolacji i wszystkiego,...