McGuinness The Last Hundred Days

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2011
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-85411-561-4
Verlag: Seren
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 123 Seiten

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. In 'The Last Hundred Days' 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGuinness, Patrick