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The Last Hundred Days

Patrick McGuinness

#7297 of 8,085 books · #2351 in Crime & Thriller

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2011).

Once 'the Paris of the East', Bucharest in 1989 is a world of danger, repression and corruption, but also of intensity and ravaged beauty. As Ceausescu's demolition squads race to destroy the old city and replace it with a sinister Stalinist Legoland, its inhabitants live out communism's dying days not knowing how or where things will end. A young English student arrives in Bucharest to take up a job he never applied for and whose duties are never made clear. He finds dissidents, party apparatchiks, black-marketeers, diplomats, spies and ordinary Romanians, all watching each other as Europe's most paranoid regime plays out its bloody endgame.

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Publisher
Seren
ISBN-13
9781854115614
Topics
Fall of communismPolitical corruption and repressionEspionage and intrigue

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