- A masterful work, sharply translated by Edith Grossman, The Dream of the Celt tackles a controversial man whose story has long been neglected, and, in so doing...
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- Mario Vargas Llosa begins this account of Casement’s life in grimy Pentonville Prison, but we rapidly move back in time and to the dark heart of the Belgian Congo...
- Vargas Llosa, who has long been regarded as one of Latin America’s most vibrant, provocative, and necessary literary voices—a fact confirmed when the...
- Mario Vargas Llosa came to fame early in 1963 when, aged 27, he won the Premio Biblioteca Breve for La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero).
- What if the dreamed-of invasion had taken place and the Kaiser’s cannon were at this very moment avenging the Irish patriots shot by the British in the Easter...
- He walked down the long passageway of red brick blackened by grime, past the metal doors of the cells and the discolored walls where every twenty or...
- A novel by the Nobel prizewinner Mario Vargas Llosa might seem ripe for cult status, when its subject is the life of Roger Casement.
- In his earlier novel, La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat), Vargas Llosa described in some detail the brutality of both the Trujillo regime and the torture inflicted...
- The Dream of the Celt itself solves Vargus Llosa's claim that Casement's story had disappeared from history as it charts his private and public life across...