A Quote by Amor Towles

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.

Amor Towles

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Amor Towles
American - Novelist
Born: 1964

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