Book description
The Dream of the Celt explores the life of the Irish revolutionary
Sir Roger Casement who was executed for treason after his involvement
in the 1916 Easter Rising, travelling with its protagonist from
Liverpool and Dublin to the Congo and Peru, where Casement worked as a
British consul, and to London, where he ended his life in Pentonville
jail. With its preoccupation with political issues and its
international scope The Dream of the Celt sits firmly in the tradition
of the greatest of Vargas Llosa's work.
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.
