Pre-Owned The Last Hundred Days (Paperback) by Patrick McGuinness

from kidzdoc

Bucharest, 1989. A young British student flies to the Romanian capital to accept a university position that he was not interviewed for, and he does not understand what is expected of him. He is met at the airport by Leo O'Helix a foreign 'professor' who becomes his mentor and closest confidant, a...

from john257hopper

This is an interesting semi- autobiographical novel set during the last  few months of Ceausescu's rule in Romania in 1989 (though it covers eight or nine months, not the three and a bit months the title implies). The author was present at that time and it shows in the very evocative descriptions...

from gayla.bassham

An impressive evocation of Romania in the age of Ceaucescu. The milieu held my interest as much or more than the plot did. The viewpoint character seemed somewhat colorless to me, but the book still held my attention until the end.

from Eyejaybee

Very tedious and entirely lacking in any characters for whom one could feel any empathy. Far too heavily steeped in melancholia and squalor, and I get more than enough of them at home!

from theonearmedcrab

Patrick McGuiness' novel, "The Last Hundred Days" (2011), is a bit of a misnomer, as it creates an expectation of the run up to the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime and the Romanian revolution of December 1989, whilst in fact it describes life in Bucharest through the eyes of young English stude...