The dream of the celt
By: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Publisher: Faber; Faber & Faber
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780571275717; 9780571275724
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Fiction
Description: As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he has attempted to raise an Irish brigade from prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans against the British Empire that awarded him a knighthood only a few years before. And now his petition for clemency is threatened by the leaking of his private diary and his secret life as a gay man ...
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.