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The dream of the Celt / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.Description: 358 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780374143466 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0374143463 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Sueño del Celta. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863
LOC classification:
  • PQ 8498.32 V297d 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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PQ 8498.32 V297d 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000102971

"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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