The Last Hundred Days [electronic resource]
McGuinness, Patrick2011
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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 Ceaus¸escu'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.
Main title:
The Last Hundred Days [electronic resource] / Patrick McGuinness
Author:
McGuinness, Patrick, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Seren, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 of Belgian and Newcastle Irish parents. Brought up in various countries, including Iran,Venezuela, France and Belgium, he studied at Cambridge,York and Oxford. He is the author of two collections of poems, The Canals of Mars and Jilted City, which have been translated into several languages, and of various books on French and British literature. He has won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry, the Levinson Prize from the American Poetry Foundation, and in 2009 was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques for services to French culture. He has also written and presented pro- grammes for radio, including the Radio Three features 'A Short History of Stupidity' and 'The Art of Idleness'. He is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University, and lives in Caernarfon, Wales. This is his first novel.
Awards:
Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee (The Booker Prize Foundation)
ISBN:
9781854115614
Language:
English
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BRN:
2305767