The Last Hundred Days
Title | The Last Hundred Days PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick McGuinness |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2012-05-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1608199150 |
Once the gleaming "Paris of the East," Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia, in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews, grocery shelves are empty, and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis, a young British man arrives to take a university post he never interviewed for. He is taken under the wing of Leo O'Heix, a colleague and master of the black market, and falls for the sleek Celia, daughter of a party apparatchik. Yet he soon learns that in this society, friendships are compromised, and loyalty is never absolute. And as the regime's authority falters, he finds himself uncomfortably, then dangerously, close to the eye of the storm. By turns thrilling and satirical, studded with poetry and understated revelation, The Last Hundred Days captures the commonplace terror of Cold War Eastern Europe. Patrick McGuinness's first novel is unforgettable.
The Hundred Days
Title | The Hundred Days PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Roth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2016-01-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811222799 |
Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica—an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates. Roth’s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. “There may be,” as James Wood has stated, “no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.”
100 Days
Title | 100 Days PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole McInnes |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2016-08-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0374302847 |
A teen girl suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes her to age rapidly. This is the story of three unlikely friends learning to live life to its fullest before ultimately letting it go.
The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19)
Title | The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O’Brian |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-12-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007429444 |
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
Hundred Days’ Literature
Title | Hundred Days’ Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Lorenzo Andolfatto |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004398856 |
Lorenzo Andolfatto’s Hundred Days’ Literature explores the literary landscape of late imperial China via the notion of utopia, offering a critical itinerary that moves from Liang Qichao’s fictional experiments to Wu Jianren’s modern retelling of the Story of the Stone.
One Hundred Days
Title | One Hundred Days PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Pung |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2023-10-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063313022 |
From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, pairing the claustrophobic intensity of Room and My Year of Rest and Relaxation with the youthful angst of Freshwater. Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother’s Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her child—and her mother’s next move in a shocking power struggle over who will raise the baby. To fill the seemingly endless hours of her imprisonment, she writes to her unborn child, determined that her baby will know the truth, no matter what happens. Karuna’s pregnancy is the result of a heady act of independence, lust, and defiance that happened in a moment of freedom from her overprotective mother. In reaction to her daughter’s recklessness, Karuna’s mother locks her inside their apartment to her to make sure she can’t get into any more trouble. While postpartum confinement is a tradition in many cultures, is Karuna’s an act of love—or emotional abuse? As the birth approaches, Karuna and her mother repeatedly trip the fault lines between love and control. And somehow, despite their battles, Karuna recognizes her mother’s love in even the strangest of behaviors. At times tense and unnerving, One Hundred Days illuminates the pain, confusion, and thrill of growing up and the overwhelming desire of adults to protect the children they
One Hundred Days of Rain
Title | One Hundred Days of Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Carellin Brooks |
Publisher | Book*hug Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781771660907 |
Fiction. Winner of the 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and Winner of the 2016 ReLit Award for Fiction. In prose by turns haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks' ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF RAIN enumerates an unnamed narrator's encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to encounter Vancouver's sky and city streets, the narrator notices that the rain, so apparently unchanging, is in fact kaleidoscopic. Her melancholic mood alike undergoes subtle variations that sometimes echo, sometimes contrast with her surroundings. Caught between the two poles of weather and mood, the narrator is not alone: whether riding the bus with her small child, searching for an apartment to rent, or merely calculating out the cost of meager lunches, the world forever intrudes, as both a comfort and a torment. "A quiet and meditative book that reads like a mystery: How do we find ourselves--sometimes simultaneously--moving both toward and away from the things that matter to us most?"--Johanna Skibsrud