Summary of The Last Hundred Days
“The Last Hundred Days” is a novel about the fall of the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s in 1989. The story follows a young British man who relocates to Bucharest to teach English at the local university. He tries to find his way in the corrupt and paranoid Romanian society but suddenly finds himself at the heart of the revolution.
Reasons to read The Last Hundred Days
“The Last Hundred Days” in a well-written and insightful novel about the final days of CeauČ™escu’s regime. Patrick McGuiness lived in Bucharest during the events and drew on his firsthand experiences to write this novel. The book was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Patrick McGuinness is an English writer and professor of French and comparative literature at Oxford. Other notable works by McGuinness include “Other People’s Countries” (a memoir of the author’s childhood in Bouillon, Belgium) and “Throw Me to the Wolves”.
Setting: Bucharest (Romania)
Original title: The Last Hundred Days
Year of publication: 2011
Nr of pages: 384
