THE DREAM OF THE CELT: A Novel. by Vargas Llosa, Mario - (2012)

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2012). Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A novel "about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. 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 worldespecially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazonbut 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." Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Includes an epilogue by the author. 356 pp.