The Last Hundred Days: A Novel
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Once the gleaming "Paris of the East " Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews grocery shelves are empty and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis a young British man arrives to take a university post he never interviewed for. He is taken under the wing of Leo OHeix a colleague and master of the black market and falls for the sleek Celia daughter of a party apparatchik. Yet he soon learns that in this society friendships are compromised and loyalty is never absolute. And as the regimes authority falters he finds himself uncomfortably then dangerously close to the eye of the storm. By turns thrilling and satirical studded with poetry and understated revelation The Last Hundred Days captures the commonplace terror of Cold War Eastern Europe. Patrick McGuinnesss first novel is unforgettable.
