"But of course, the Count also wept for himself. For despite his friendships with Marina and Andrey and Emile, despite his love for Anna, despite Sofia - that extraordinary blessing that had struck him from the blue - when Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich died, there went the last of those who had known him as a younger man."
Amor Towles is an American novelist best known for Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. His fiction is widely translated and has reached international bestseller lists.