“The Dream of a Celt” is a mosaic of memories passing before the eyes of the hero on death row. The novel is based on the true story of the legendary Irish independence fighter Roger Casement. A former British consul whose reports of colonial atrocities in the Congo and the Amazon earned him widespread fame, he was executed for calling for rebellion against the rule of the British Empire. Casement spent his last days in complete isolation, abandoned by friends and associates outraged by his collusion with the Germans and homosexual affairs, which became known from his diary - either real or falsified. * * *Mario Vargas Llosa - one of the creators of the “boom” "Latin American prose, world-famous Peruvian prose writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 "for his depiction of the hidden mechanisms of power and the most vivid pictures of human struggle, rebellion and defeat." This is especially true of Llosa's non-fiction novel The Dream of a Celt (2010). In it, the writer presents his version of the amazing, full of adventures and sinful pleasures of the life of the legendary Roger Casement, an ardent supporter of Irish independence, executed for inciting rebellion against the rule of the British Empire. “The Dream of a Celt” is the fourth novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, which the publishing house introduces to the reader. Foreigner." The “The Best” series previously included “A Praise for a Stepmother,” “The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto,” and “Adventures of a Bad Girl.”* * *Over 1 million copies sold