by Paco Ignacio Taibo II · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312206529
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«Guevara, Also Known as Che» is the biography of Che Guevara by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, published by Macmillan in paperback (704 pages, in English).
A reconstruction of the life of Ernesto Che Guevara, symbol of the revolutionary struggle in Latin America. Taibo II delves into archives and testimonies to separate the historical figure from the myth, and reviews the political context, his ideals, and the circumstances of his death in Bolivia in 1967.
Work originally published in Spanish in 1996; this English edition, translated by Martin Roberts, appeared in 1999. Winner of the 1998 Bancarella Prize.
For readers of biography and history interested in the figure of Che Guevara and the Latin American revolutionary movement of the twentieth century.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the founder of the neopolicial genre of novel in Latin America and is also a prominent member of the international crime writing community. His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including two Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes. In 2018, Taibo was appointed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
