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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 0374143463
EAN: 9780374143466
Kindle: B0088470A8
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A subtle and enlightening novel about 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 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.
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