Bücher von Amor Towles

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.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW'An absolute beauty of a book. Every character is a gem, the many locations spring to vivid life, the book is an intricate and moving exploration of journeys and the infinite unexpected turns they can take - and somehow Towles makes it all seem effortless. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH'The best novel I've read in years. Epic and original, mesmeric and life-affirming, in THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY Amor Towles takes his unmatched gift for storytelling and puts it on the road. Every beautiful paragraph takes the reader a mile further into a world where our choices matter, where life surprises us, and where people are worth the trouble. This is one of those rare and special books that drive us home to ourselves' CHRIS CLEAVE'With exquisitely drawn characters, beautiful writing and a real sense of moral integrity, The Lincoln Highway already feels like an American coming of age classic to sit alongside The Catcher In The Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird' Red_____________________In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.Bursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller._____________________'[A] wise and wildly entertaining novel . . . Towles has snipped off a minuscule strand of existence - 10 wayward days - and when we look through his lens we see that this brief interstice teems with stories, grand as legends' New York Times'Finely observed and beautifully written. Amor Towles is that rare combination of writer and storyteller' JEFFREY ARCHER

An Instant New York Times Bestseller“A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York Times “Superb ... This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times   Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that 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 a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSet between New York City and Los Angeles, TABLE FOR TWO follows the indominable Evelyn Ross, protagonist of RULES OF CIVILITY, as she crafts a new future for herself-and others-in the midst of Hollywood's golden age.Written with Towles's signature wit, humour, and sophistication, TABLE FOR TWO is another glittering addition to his canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.

The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.

"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: 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 comprise 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'scanon of stylish and transporting historical fiction"--

Die Geschichte einer versäumten Liebe >Eine Frage der Höflichkeit< ist zugleich ein elegantes modernes Märchen und ein mitreißendes Gesellschaftsporträt in der Erzähltradition von F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Nach "Ein Gentleman in Moskau" der neue Roman von Bestsellerautor Amor Towles: "Eine ausgelassene Road Novel quer durch Amerika." TimeIm Juni 1954 wird der achtzehnjährige Emmett aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Zuhause in Nebraska wartet sein kleiner Bruder Billy auf ihn. Nach dem Tod des Vaters möchten sie einen Neuanfang in Kalifornien wagen, wo sie ihre verschwundene Mutter vermuten. Alles ist bereit für die Fahrt mit dem 48er Studebaker, doch plötzlich tauchen zwei Freunde aus dem Gefängnis auf. Sie haben allerdings ein anderes Ziel, New York City. So beginnt eine Reise mit den witzigsten und unglaublichsten Begegnungen - Clowns, Landstreicher, arbeitslose Schauspieler, Bettler und besonders gefährliche Pastoren. ,Lincoln Highway' erzählt die ergreifende Odyssee von vier vaterlosen Jungen entlang der ersten Autobahn Amerikas.

'TOWLES IST EIN MEISTERERZÄHLER' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1922. Ein Moskauer Volkskommissariat verurteilt Graf Alexander Rostov zu lebenslangem Hausarrest. Er sei moralisch so korrupt wie die ganze begüterte Klasse. Rostov, ein junger Mann und doch Gentleman alter Schule, wohnt im Hotel Metropol. Das geschichtsträchtige Haus wird die nächsten Jahrzehnte seine Welt. Nichts kann seine Höflichkeit und seinen Optimismus erschüttern. Bis er für das Glück eines anderen handeln muss. 'Ein wunderbarer Gesellschaftsroman, der von der Bestimmung erzählt, die jeder für sich finden muss.' BRIGITTE

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a ';sharply stylish' (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high societynow with over one million readers worldwideOn 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 societywhere 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.