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The last hundred days

"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.

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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 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."@en
  • "Ein englischer Student begibt sich wenige Monate vor dem Sturz des Diktators Ceausescu ins kommunistische Rumänien, um an der Universität in Bukarest eine Stelle anzutreten, für die er sich nie beworben hat. Sein Mentor Leo O'Heix, ein zynischer Dandy, Philologe und König des Schwarzmarktes, führt ihn durch das Labyrinth einer absurden, doppelbödigen Stadt, in der jeder jeden bespitzelt und wo die einen hungern, während die anderen einem perversen Luxus frönen. Patrick McGuinness erzählt in seinem abgründigen, fesselnden Roman, der Finalist beim Booker-Preis 2011 war, vom ungeheuerlichen Leben der Menschen in den letzten Tagen einer Diktatur."
  • "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 O{u2019}Heix, 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 regime{u2019}s authority falters, he finds himself uncomfortably, then dangerously, close to the eye of the storm."@en
  • "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 O{u2019}Heix, 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 regime{u2019}s authority falters, he finds himself uncomfortably, then dangerously, close to the eye of the storm."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Adventure fiction"

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  • "Die Abschaffung des Zufalls : Roman"
  • "The last hundred days"@en
  • "The last hundred days"
  • "Les cent derniers jours : roman"
  • "Die Abschaffung des Zufalls Roman"
  • "The last hundred days : a novel"
  • "The last hundred days : a novel"@en
  • "The last hundred days a novel"
  • "The last hundred days a novel"@en

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