El Sueno del Celta

El Sueno del Celta

Mario Vargas Llosa (Premio Novel de Literatura 2010)


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Paperback. Pages: 464 Publisher: Alfaguara Four years after publishing. Travesuras de la ni a mala. Vargas Llosa has completed El sue o del celta. A work based on the provocative life of Irishman Roger Casement. One of the first to document human rights abuses in European-ruled colonies. Casement's shocking revelations exposed a painful truth: Europeans were committing unspeakably barbarous acts in the name of commerce. civilization. and Christianity. What Casement witnessed ultimately led him to confront England and the imperialist policies enforced in his native Ireland . He became a militant for the Irish Nationalist cause and during World War I conspired with the German government to purchase weapons for a revolt set to take place during the Easter holiday. But the weapons never made it to Irish shores. and the itish utally suppressed the Easter Rising. All Irish rebel l...


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Paperback. Pages: 464 Publisher: Alfaguara Four years after publishing. Travesuras de la ni a mala. Vargas Llosa has completed El sue o del celta. A work based on the provocative life of Irishman Roger Casement. One of the first to document human rights abuses in European-ruled colonies. Casement's shocking revelations exposed a painful truth: Europeans were committing unspeakably barbarous acts in the name of commerce. civilization. and Christianity. What Casement witnessed ultimately led him to confront England and the imperialist policies enforced in his native Ireland . He became a militant for the Irish Nationalist cause and during World War I conspired with the German government to purchase weapons for a revolt set to take place during the Easter holiday. But the weapons never made it to Irish shores. and the itish utally suppressed the Easter Rising. All Irish rebel l...



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Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a...


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