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Sunday, 11 June 2017

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles




Title: A Gentleman in Moscow
Author: Amor Towles
Date Read: May 16 2017 

Published: September 6 2016 @ Viking
Genre: Adult Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐




“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”