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... Mario Vargas Llosa, with his incomparable gift for
powerful historical narrative, takes the reader on a journey back
through a remarkable life dedicated to the exposure of barbaric
treatment of indigenous peoples by European predators in the Congo
and Amazonia. Casement was feted as one of the greatest
humanitarians of the age. Now he is about to die ignominiously as a
traitor.
General
Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2013 |
Authors: |
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Dimensions: |
198 x 127 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
498 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-27575-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
0-571-27575-3 |
Barcode: |
9780571275755 |
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