Patrick McGuinness

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 Ceausescus demolition squads race to destroy the old city and replace it with a sinister Stalinist Legoland, its inhabitants live out communisms 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 Europes most paranoid regime plays out its bloody endgame.

EL PASADO ES UN LUGAR DONDE SIEMPRE ES AHORA.Un cáustico y certero noir literario basado en un caso real.«Un innegable logro literario a la par que una lectura adictiva que recuerda a las mejores nov

EL PASADO ES UN LUGAR DONDE SIEMPRE ES AHORA.Un cáustico y certero noir literario basado en un caso real.«Un innegable logro literario a la par que una lectura adictiva que recuerda a las mejores nov

Academic work analyzing French literature of the fin de siècle, focusing on symbolism and decadence.