The Dream of the Celt: A Novel

Synopsis

A subtle and enlightening historical novel about Roger Casement, a neglected human rights pioneer, by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. 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 involving homosexuality and 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. In The Dream of the Celt, Mario Vargas Llosa, who has long been regarded as one of Latin America's most vibrant, provocative, and necessary literary voices--a fact confirmed when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010--brings this complex character to life as no other writer can. A masterful work, sharply translated by Edith Grossman,The Dream of the Celt tackles a controversial man whose story has long been neglected, and, in so doing, pushes at the boundaries of the historical novel.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

358 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780374143466

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Date of Addition:

01/11/18

Copyrighted By:

Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender

Submitted By:

Terry Gorman

Proofread By:

Terry Gorman

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.