Amor Towles: if you like Dickens and Tolstoy, try this Egyptian writer
Born in Boston in 1964, he has degrees from Yale and Stanford (his English MA thesis was even published in The Paris Review). On graduating, he spent 21 years working in finance before quitting to write. Each of his novels, from Rules of Civility in 2011 to A Gentleman in Moscow in 2016 (the television adaptation starred
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