Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by His Father
Ernesto Guevara Lynch
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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.
Product Details
Price
$24.00
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date
December 02, 2008
Pages
400
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.9 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780307390448
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Ernesto Guevara Lynch, the father of Che Guevara, was born in Argentina in 1900 of Irish and Basque origin.
Reviews
"A timely source of vivid insights into [the key influences] that turned this young man into the world's most recogniseable revolutionary." --The Latin American Review of Books