Dream of the Celt

By:

Llosa, Mario Vargas, 1936-

Contributor(s):

Grossman, Edith, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London Faber and Faber 2012ISBN:

9780571275755

Subject(s):

Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 -- Fiction

LOC classification:

PQ8498.32.A65 S8413 2012

Summary: "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.

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"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sueño del Celta."

"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.

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