Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara
By Aleida March
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For the first time, Aleida March evokes the memories of her partner, Ernesto Che Guevara. She describes their great romance and life together from the days when they first met as fellow guerrillas in Cuba's revolutionary war up to the tragic moment when she learned of Che's assassination in Bolivia less than a decade later.
As Che's widow, Aleida writes with passion and poignancy of their shared political dreams for the future and their family. Never before have readers been offered such an intimate insight into the man behind one of the great political symbols of our time.
- Includes one hundred intimate photos taken from the private family albums of Che with his children and his wife, including the last photos of Che and Aleida together when Che had disguised himself in preparation for his secret mission to Bolivia.
- Also includes facsimiles of postcards and letters Che sent to his family from abroad, as well as poems written to Aleida and a moving short story sent from Africa.
This book reveals Aleida's own great strength and courage as she came to terms with her private loss while under the international spotlight of millions of others who also mourned the death of a world-famous revolutionary, perhaps comparable to Yoko Ono after the death of John Lennon. She also describes her efforts to raise her four children as ordinary children despite their father's legendary status in Cuba and abroad.
Aleida March is currently the director of the Che Guevara Studies Center, Cuba.
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Reviews for Remembering Che
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you are looking for a history of the Cuban Revolution, go elsewhere (or pick a couple of photos before going). If you are looking for a chance to take a glimpse of what was happening there and then, what were the people and their minds like - go for it.
A chunk of life, unimaginably huge at times, built in front of you line by line, brick by brick in concise and modest, somewhat tired lines. Make sure you don't read it by night or in dim lights - for the sensitive ones, presence is guaranteed. And quite absorbing.
One may call Che whatever one pleases; after reading his Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War I've realized that the amount of hatred in the Internet has to be divided by many a ten - and I can just laugh at it after reading this book (and his story "The Stone" at the end). Now I don't give a damn how bloody-scary the "Argentine butcher" was - I'd join him anyway. I strongly suspect there are quite a lot of people who think alike.
Aleida and companeros have done a great job, particularly because it gives us people hope and strength to fight for justice, however little we could do. Hugs from the Communist Russia! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful. I cried.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The story of a great legend and a great love" Well, great legend maybe - not sure about the great love part. This is a memoir by the second Mrs. Guevara. I found it to be a quick and pleasant read with a lot of great photographs which are alone worth checking out. It is the story of their relationship from her perspective There are a lot of little sweet stories. If you are looking for history of Guevara or the Cuban revolution, I'd recommend something different, perhaps [[Margaret Randall]]'s [Part of the Solution] is a nice blend of memoir and history unless you want to go with a straight academic textbook. Although, if you want a complete study of Guevara, this is probably necessary reading.