by Paco Ignacio Taibo II · Editorial Planeta, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408019336
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«Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che» is the biography of Che Guevara by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, published by Planeta in hardback (860 pages).
A biography drawing on unpublished material, photographs, testimonies and diaries to portray Ernesto Guevara away from the advertising icon. The work shows him as a man who, already Minister of Industry in Cuba, still had his boots untied, and proposes a rereading of the myth and an encounter with the historical figure.
It belongs to the La Línea del Horizonte collection and was published in 1997. Includes bibliography (pages 827-860).
A work for readers of contemporary history interested in the figure of Ernesto Guevara beyond his mythical image.
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.
