{"product_id":"the-last-hundred-days-paperback","title":"The Last Hundred Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick McGuinness\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of 2012 Wales Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Statesman Book of the Year 2011\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Drags you through the smoky backrooms of the dying days of Communist Romania. Funny, insightful and compelling.\" - Costa Prize Judges, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet during Ceausescu's last hundred days in power, Patrick McGuinness's accomplished debut novel explores a world of danger, repression and corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen our narrator, a young English student with a damaged past and an uncertain future, arrives in Bucharest he finds himself in a job he never applied for. With duties that become increasingly ambiguous and precarious, he soon finds himself uncomfortably and often dangerously close to the eye of the storm. He learns, as he goes, the uncertainty of friendships in a surveillance society: friendships that are compromised and riddled with danger and duplicity. He encounters dissidents, party apparatchiks, black-markerteers, diplomats, spies and ordinary Romanians, their lives all intertwined against a background of severe poverty and repression as Europe's most paranoid regime plays out its bloody endgame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe socialist state is in stasis, the shops are empty and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceausescu's demolition gangs. Paranoia is pervasive and secret service men lurk in the shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 382\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Costa Book Awards (2011)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923686785331,"sku":"9781854115416","price":27.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HlNd3B1F4c9781854115416.webp?v=1793825537","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-last-hundred-days-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}