Dream of the Celt

The Dream of the Celt is a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, presented in November 2010, which has become a bestseller in Spain and was the most popular title at the XXIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. The book is a novelization of the life of Roger Casement, an Anglo-Irish diplomat and Irish patriot, who helped expose the exploitation of Native Americans in Peru's Amazon region, known as the Putumayo genocide. The novel combines elements of the historical novel and journalistic chronicle, exploring themes of colonial subjugation and enslavement in the Congo Basin and Peruvian Amazon during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is structured in alternating chapters, detailing Casement's last three months of life and his experiences prior to that, ultimately converging on his execution by hanging.learn more on wikipedia