The book of the popular movie

STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

 

The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary.This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.

 

“As his journey progresses, Guevara’s voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what’s going on around him.”—January Magazine

 

“A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, ‘I’ turned into ‘we’.” —Eduardo Galeano

 

“When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner… To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been…” —Aleida Guevara

 

“Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it.” —Walter Salles, director of “The Motorcycle Diaries.”

 

Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (978-1-920888-11-4)

 

Features of this edition include:

• A preface by Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida
• Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet
• Photos & maps from the original journey
• Postcript: Che’s personal reflections on his formative years: “A child of my environment.”

 

Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana

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"And if someone says we are just romantics, inveterate idealists, thinking the impossible, that the masses of people cannot become almost perfect human beings, we will have to answer a thousand and one times: Yes, it can be done; we are confident that humanity as a whole can advance." (CHE GUEVARA)Is there an alternative to the neoliberal globalization that is ravaging our planet?These classic works by Ernesto Che Guevara present a radical view of a different world in which human solidarity and understanding replace aggressive capitalist competition and exploitation.Included here are Che's essay, "Socialism and Man in Cuba," his controversial speech in Algiers in 1965, and his final message to Tricontinental, in which he calls for the creation of "Two, Three, Many Vietnams."Che Guevara was born in Argentina and traveled throughout Latin America before joining the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship in 1959. Although best known for his writings on guerrilla warfare, this book shows Che as a profound thinker with a radical world view that still strikes a chord with young rebels in every country today....

The book of the new, two-part biopic on Che Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro as the legendary revolutionary.

Director Steven Soderbergh has based his two Che movies (Che: The Argentine and Che: Guerrilla) on two classic diaries written by Che Guevara: Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (an account of the guerrilla movement led by Fidel Castro that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959) and Bolivian Diary (Che's famous, unfinished diary discovered in his backpack when he was captured and killed in Bolivia in October 1967).

Che: Guerrilla Diaries includes a selection from each book, showing the young Argentine's evolution from the wide-eyed medical student of the Motorcycle Diaries-era to the revolutionary hero the world knows as Che.

Features:

• Key excerpts from Che's Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, his final Bolivian Diary, his fiery address to the UN General Assembly, and interviews with US journalist Lisa Howard and CBS' Face the Nation during his visit to New York in December 1964.
• Che's first encounter with Fidel Castro in Mexico, when he immediately commits himself to join the guerrilla expedition to Cuba.
• The dramatic moment when Che has to decide his future either as a doctor or a guerrilla fighter, symbolized by the choice of two backpacks: one with medicine, the other with ammunition.
• Che's poetic letter to his parents before he sets out on the fateful Bolivia mission.
• Maps, chronology, and a useful glossary.
• Thirty-six pages of original photos from the period and stills from the movie.
• Movie tie-in cover.
• Blurbs by Benicio del Toro and Steven Soderbergh.

Also published in English this season is Che: Guerrilla Diaries, 978-1-920888-93-0.

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Che’s diary of the fateful Bolivia mission. Now revised by Che’s widow and with a preface by his son Camilo, this is the definitive account of the attempt to spark a continent-wide revolution in Latin America—the basis of Steven Soderbergh biopic on Che Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro.

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THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART TWO” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO

 

This is Che Guevara’s last diary, compiled from notebooks found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed. It became an instant bestseller.

Newly revised by Che’s widow (Aleida March), and including a thoughtful preface by his eldest son Camilo, this is the definitive account of the attempt to spark a continent-wide revolution in Latin America.

 

“Thanks to Che’s invariable habit of noting the main events of each day, we have rigorously exact, priceless and detailed information on the heroic final moments of his life in Bolivia.”—Fidel Castro

 

Features of this new edition include:

Preface by Camilo Guevara
Introduction by Fidel Castro

Revised translation

Biographical note
Chronology
Glossary
Maps

 

32 pp black and white photos

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"A wonderful glimpse into the maturing mind of a great man and a vital companion to the previous Che diaries."-Michael McCaughan, The Irish Times

"An absorbing glimpse of the development of a legendary revolutionary figure."-Booklist

This is the first US Spanish edition of Che Guevara's diary from his second journey through Latin America. Che finds himself in Guatemala during a US-inspired coup and also describes his historic first encounter with Fidel Castro.
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“Guevara launches into a brutally honest account of Cuba’s disastrous 1965 intervention in Congo. . . . Most of all, the diaries afford the reader a very personal insight into the thoughts and emotions of Che Guevara, the twentieth century’s great revolutionary martyr.”—Publishers Weekly
 
In 1965, Che Guevara left Cuba to lead a secret Cuban mission to aid the African liberation movements. Unpublished for decades, this diary reflects Che’s characteristic insight, humor, and candor.

«Dejaba atrás casi once años de trabajo para la Revolución cubana al lado de Fidel, un hogar feliz, hasta donde puede llamarse hogar la vivienda de un revolucionario consagrado a su tarea, y un montón de hijos que apenas sabían de mi cariño. Se reiniciaba el ciclo.»—Ernesto Che Guevara

La participación de Che en la guerrilla congolesa, resulta expression de una práctica internacionalista consecuente con sus tesis liberadoras tercermundistas; en sus propias palabras, era «parte de una idea de lucha que estaba totalmente organizada en mi cerebro». Es, pues, nueva afirmación—ya en madurez—de esa confluencia entr pensamiento y acción, que se articulan de manera crecient a lo largo de su vida, hasta la gesta boliviana, conformando y dándole esa particular fuerza y sentido a su ejemplo. Se entrelazan, en estas páginas, la descripción de los hechos vinculados a esta experiencia local, con los análisis desde una perspective mundial. Reflexiones sobre la dominación imperialista y la liberación de los pueblos, las cuales resultan continuidad de un pensamiento que coprende desde sus discursos en Ginebra, Naciones Unidas y Argelia, hasta su «Mensaje a la Tricontinental»; un ideario actuante que tiene como bandera «las causa sagrada de la redención de la humanidad».

 

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THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO

The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevara’s early diaries fully blossom in this highly readable and often entertaining account of the guerrilla war that led to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Reminiscences is one of the two books for Steven Soderbergh’s biopic (along with The Bolivian Diary).

Feature chapters describe Che’s first meeting with Fidel in Mexico, the mythical moment when Che had to choose between a knapsack of medicine and another of ammunition, and the anguished story of the murdered puppy.

This new, thoroughly revised edition includes for the first time corrections made to the diary by Che himself and a preface by his daughter Aleida .

 “Reflects the life of an extraordinary and important man.”—Library Journal

“When Che Guevara cast his lot with Marxism and revolution the world of letters suffered an incalculable loss. Guevara is a brilliant, thoughtful writer. He is lucid, candid and revealing.”—The Cleveland Press

 

 

Features of this new edition include:

 

• Preface by Aleida Guevara
• Revised translation
• Biographical note
• Chronology
• Glossary
• 32 pp black and white photos

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