Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by His Father (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307390448)

"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.

Author: Ernesto Guevara Lynch
ISBN-10: 0307390446
ISBN-13: 9780307390448
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2008
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2008 pg. 1103
Library Journal 11/15/2008 pg. 78
Booklist 12/01/2008 pg. 15