Dream of the Celt

In THE DREAM OF THE CELT, Mario Vargas Llosa, who has long been regarded as one of Latin America's most vibrant, provocative, and necessary literary voices-a fact confirmed when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010-brings this complex character to life as no other writer can. A masterful work, sharply translated by Edith Grossman, THE DREAM OF THE CELT tackles a controversial man, Irish nationalist Roger Casement, whose story has long been neglected, and, in so doing, pushes at the boundaries of the historical novel.