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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-06-25 Pages: 358 Language: English Publisher: Picador USA As The Dream of the Celt opens. it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in Londons 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 .... 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 p...
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"Mario Vargas Llosa has done an inestimable service to the memory of a great man." --John Banville, The New York Review of Books
"This vibrant reimagining of history is also a brilliant exploration of conflicting moral claims. Who are the oppressors? Who are the truth-tellers? As always, Vargas Llosa remains a fiendishly clever teacher." --The Washington Post
"At once a meticulously researched fictional biography and a clever psychological novel." --The Economist
"Vargas Llosa is a masterful writer." --The Miami Herald
"The Dream of the Celt fully succeeds in capturing the complexity of the man....Vargas Llosa has produced an epic apologia for this most sympathetic of traitors." --The Daily Beast
In Mario Vargas Llosa's The Dream of the Celt - an epic and moving novel spanning three continents - one of the world's greatest writers re-imagines the life of Roger Casement, the most controversial hero of Irish nationalism.
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