The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors. He was born in Peru in 1936 and educated at university in Lima, where he studied Humanities and Law. Always politically outspoken, from 1976 to 1979 Vargas Llosa served as President of PEN adn in 1983 presided over the commission which investigated the deaths of eight journalists killed during the Belaunde Government's campaign against the Maoist guerrilla movement. Having once declined the Prime Ministership of Peru in 1984, he was a candidate in the 1990 Presidential elections. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571275724 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571275729 |
| Title | The Dream of the Celt |
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2012-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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