The last hundred days : a novel /
"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 co...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London :
Seren,
2011.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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"--provided by publisher. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (438 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781854115614 (electronic) 1854115618 (electronic) |