The Last Hundred Days: A Novel
Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Wales Book of the Year PrizeWinner of the Writers Guild Award for Best FictionShortlisted for the Costa First Novel AwardShortlisted for the Desmond Elliot PrizeShortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award "One of the Best Books of the Year"London Evening Standard - Telegraph - New Statesman "[McGuinness] is observant, reflective, witty and precise. He is capable of combining the essayistic, the lyrical, the humorous and the aphoristic, sometimes within a single paragraph... An incisive and engaging account of a society and a historical period that is essential to remember, especially now." - Francine Prose,The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant first novel set in 1989, in the writhing demise of communist Bucharest -- dark, immaculately written, bitterly lucid and very gripping." - James Wood,New Statesman"Books of the Year" "A coming-of-age story with a vivid historical backdrop... The sharply observant McGuinness has filled his novel with quick, witty descriptions of people, places and situations... McGuinness does more, however, than explore how people acted in this now transformed country. He's captured the way corruption and tyranny warp behavior in any society." - Carole Burns,The Washington Post "[A] memorable story about a pivotal moment in history." - Kevin Canfield, Kansas City Star