The dream of the Celt /
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
The dream of the Celt / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman - 1st American ed - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012 - 358 pages : 24 cm
"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sue©ło del Celta."
"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s."--Jacket
9780374143466 0374143463 9780571275717 (hardback)
2011052181
Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 --Fiction
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
863.64 / VAR-D
The dream of the Celt / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman - 1st American ed - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012 - 358 pages : 24 cm
"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sue©ło del Celta."
"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s."--Jacket
9780374143466 0374143463 9780571275717 (hardback)
2011052181
Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 --Fiction
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
863.64 / VAR-D