The dream of the Celt : a novel
Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936-)
The dream of the Celt : a novel / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012 - 358 p. ; 24 cm.
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving 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.
9780374143466
Casement, Roger, Sir (, 1864 - 1916)
Authors----Peruvian----Fiction
Nationalism----Fiction
Imperialism----Ficiton
History----Fiction
Peru----Fiction
Ireland----Fiction
Congo---History----Fiction
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The dream of the Celt : a novel / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012 - 358 p. ; 24 cm.
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving 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.
9780374143466
Casement, Roger, Sir (, 1864 - 1916)
Authors----Peruvian----Fiction
Nationalism----Fiction
Imperialism----Ficiton
History----Fiction
Peru----Fiction
Ireland----Fiction
Congo---History----Fiction
LAS FIC VAR
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