The Last Hundred Days
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781854115416 (1854115413)
Publish date: May 1st 2011
Publisher: Seren Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Politics,
Modern,
Dystopia,
Romania
This book was right up my alley. I thought it was intelligently written, unusual and loved the combination of historical facts wrapped up in a fictional storyline. I can see the validity in other book reviewers who have called this book dry. It does have a tendency to be dry and depressing in the d...
The Last Hundred Days are those of Ceausescu’s Romania. The real historical events leading up to the Romanian Revolution are a scaffold for the fictional narrative. The story is told from the vantage of an expat Brit who was just looking to get a job and it happened to land him there during the la...