The Last Hundred Days
- ISBN-10
- 1854115413
- ISBN-13
- 9781854115416
- Category
- General fiction
- Pages
- 377
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seren Books
- Author
- Patrick McGuinness
Description
The socialist state is in crisis, the shops are empty and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceaucescu's demolition gangs. Paranoia is pervasive and secret service men lurk in the shadows. In this book, Patrick McGuinness creates an absorbing sense of time and place as the city struggles to survive this intense moment in history. He evokes a world of extremity and ravaged beauty from the viewpoint of an outsider uncomfortably, and often dangerously, close to the eye of the storm as the regime of 1980s Romania crumbles to a bloody end.
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