Fidel - Nestor Kohan & Nahuel Scherma

Graphic Novel. Biography and Autobiography.

'A man of austere habits and insatiable illusions ... incapable of conceiving any ideal that is not colossal' - Gabrial Garcia Marquez, from 'The Fidel I Think I know'.

In the United States, 90 miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a dictator, some say he is a liberator. In Fidel, Nestor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present one of the towering figures of the twentieth century as he is seen by Latin Americans: as the leader who, for over fifty years has stood up to the greatest military power in the worlds and remained standing.

Here, in Kohan's incisive prose and Scherma's passionate illustrations, is the man who, inspired by decades of Latin American Marxist thinking, fought from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra to free his country - the man who walked the razor's edge between military threats by the United States and political coercion by the Soviet Union - the man who became a leader in the revolution against colonial governments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin America - the man who fought, above all, to transform the conscience of his people, spreading literacy, culture, and free medical care to everyone on the island. Here is Fidel - the man who became the symbol of the revolution in the New World

Nestor Kohan is the author of a number of Spanish-language books on Marxism, Che Guevara, and social movements in Latin America.

Nahuel Scherma is an Argentinian film-maker and documentarian. Fidel is his first book of illustrations.

9.99
  • Fidel - Nestor Kohan & Nahuel Scherma

Graphic Novel. Biography and Autobiography.

'A man of austere habits and insatiable illusions ... incapable of conceiving any ideal that is not colossal' - Gabrial Garcia Marquez, from 'The Fidel I Think I know'.

In the United States, 90 miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a dictator, some say he is a liberator. In Fidel, Nestor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present one of the towering figures of the twentieth century as he is seen by Latin Americans: as the leader who, for over fifty years has stood up to the greatest military power in the worlds and remained standing.

Here, in Kohan's incisive prose and Scherma's passionate illustrations, is the man who, inspired by decades of Latin American Marxist thinking, fought from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra to free his country - the man who walked the razor's edge between military threats by the United States and political coercion by the Soviet Union - the man who became a leader in the revolution against colonial governments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin America - the man who fought, above all, to transform the conscience of his people, spreading literacy, culture, and free medical care to everyone on the island. Here is Fidel - the man who became the symbol of the revolution in the New World

Nestor Kohan is the author of a number of Spanish-language books on Marxism, Che Guevara, and social movements in Latin America.

Nahuel Scherma is an Argentinian film-maker and documentarian. Fidel is his first book of illustrations.

Book specs
Publisher Seven Stories Press
Edition 2010
Cover type Paperback
Number of pages 190

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Fidel - Nestor Kohan & Nahuel Scherma

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