| Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by His Father Contributor(s): Guevara Lynch, Ernesto (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307390446 ISBN-13: 9780307390448 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: This vibrant narrative, compiled from two memoirs written by Che Guevara's father (the first time these sources have been made available in English), covers the formative years of the revolutionary icon. 16 pages of photographs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008032196 |
| Lexile Measure: 1190 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.80 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different type from the one I dreamed of, and when I arrive in a new country it will not be to go to museums and look at ruins, because that still interests me, but also to join the struggle of the people." - Che Guevara, in a letter to his mother, 1956Assembled from two separate books written by Che's father, this is a vivid and intimate account of the formative years of an icon. Ernesto Guevara Lynch describes the people and personal events that shaped the development of his son's revolutionary worldview, from his childhood in a bourgeois Argentinian home to the moment he joined Castro to train for the invasion of Cuba in 1956. It also includes, available for the first time in the United States, Che's diary of his trip around Northern Argentina in 1950. Young Che is an indispensible guide to understanding one of the twentieth century's most famous and enduring revolutionary figures. |