A Cupboard Full of Coats
Yvvette Edwards
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~6.3 hr
The Last Hundred Days
by Patrick McGuinness (2011)
About this book
The socialist state is in crisis, the shops are empty and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceaucescu's demolition gangs. Paranoia is pervasive and secret service men lurk in the shadows. In The Last 100 Days, Patrick McGuinness creates an absorbing sense of time and place as the city struggles to survive this intense moment in history. He evokes a world of extremity and ravaged beauty from the viewpoint of an outsider uncomfortably, and often dangerously, close to the eye of the storm as the regime of 1980s Romania crumbles to a bloody end.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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