The dream of the Celt
By: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780374143466
Work titles: Sueño del Celta
Description: "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."--Dust jacket.
Notes: "Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sueño del Celta."