The dream of the Celt / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374143466
- ISBN: 0374143463
- Physical Description: 358 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sueǫ del Celta"--T.p. verso. |
Summary, etc.: | Explores the life of Sir Roger Casement, a British consul and Irish nationalist who was hanged for treason after he challenged the British authority in Northern Ireland. |
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Subject: | Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 > Fiction. Imperialism > Fiction. Consuls > Fiction. Nationalism > Fiction. Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 20th century > Fiction. Peru > History > 20th century > Fiction. Ireland > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

Author Notes
The Dream of the Celt : A Novel
Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat , The Bad Girl , Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter , The War of the End of the World , and The Storyteller . He lives in London. Edith Grossman has translated the works of the Nobel laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, among others. One of the most important translators of Latin American fiction, her version of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is considered to be the finest translation of the Spanish masterpiece in the English language.