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The dream of the Celt / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012Edition: 1st American edDescription: 358 pages : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374143466
  • 0374143463
  • 9780571275717 (hardback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 863.64 VAR-D
Summary: "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
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 2nd Floor Books 863.64 VAR-D 63748 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Hardback. 10001000063748
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"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

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