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.
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.
Reviews
...the sardonic crispness and evocative power of its language distinguishes it from the run of contemporary fiction. Sean O'Brien, TLS
..engrossing debut novel..I defy anyone not to revel in 350-odd pages of it at least Time Out Magazine **** Book of the Month (June 2011) Buzz Magazine
About the Author
Patrick McGuiness is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Anne's College where he has taught since 1998. He lives in North West Wales. Carcanet publishes his poetry and he has won an Eric Gregory Award, the American Poetry Foundation Levinson Prize in 2003 and Poetry Business Prize in 2006.
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Ben Schott born London 1974. The son of a neurologist and a nurse achieved a double First from Cambridge. Schott's Almanac was first published in 2005 and is now a bestselling reference book published annually. Discover Schott's Almanac
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