Mario Vargas Llosa

Broschiertes Buch

The Dream of the Celt

Beschreibung

It is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine.

Autor

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780571275755
• ISBN-10: 0571275753
• Artikelnr.: 37556507

Rezensionen

Mario Vargas Llosa's semi-fictionalised account of Casement's life portrays a heroic, if ultimately tragic champion of oppressed peoples ... Absorbing. Sunday Telegraph