By the time Mario Vargas Llosa got to Roger Casement's grave, he was already besotted. "He was a hero, very imperfect, very human and for me this made the character sympathetic. More than sympathetic," says the Nobel laureate at his publisher's offices in London. "But certain people find it hard to accept heroes who aren't perfect." At Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, Vargas Llosa found the grave for the Irish patriot hanged by the British in 1916. "It was very sad because around him there are always flowers on the tombs of the leaders of the Irish rebellion, but on Casement's tomb there is not one flower.
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