The Dream of the Celt
Paperback edition of the latest work from the Nobel Prize winning Peruvian author, which reimagines the life of Irish nationalist Roger Casement. Beginning in 1916 as Casement prepares to be executed for his role in the Easter Rising, it looks back into his past. 'Mario Vargas Llosa's semi-fictionalised account of Casement's life portrays a heroic, if ultimately tragic champion of oppressed peoples...' Sunday Telegraph
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-571-27575-5
- EAN: 9780571275755
- Produktnummer: 14623269
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D3.5 cm 404 g
- Gewicht: 404
Über den Autor
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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