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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 The Last 100 Days, 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.
| ISBN | 1854115413 | | Pages | 356 | | ISBN13 | 9781854115416
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 454 | | Publisher | Poetry Wales Press | | Published in | Bridgend | | Imprint | Seren | | Height (mm) | 206 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Publication date | 01 Jun 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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"...the sardonic crispness and evocative power of its language distinguishes it from the run of contemporary fiction." Sean O'Brien, TLS "..engrossing debut novel..I defy anyone not to revel in 350-odd pages of it at least" Time Out Magazine **** Book of the Month (June 2011) Buzz Magazine  Be the first to write a customer review
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