Shadow of a Myth is the story of Martin Guevara, the nephew of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. On Martin's tenth birthday, he and his family took a trip that in reality was an emigration from their native Argentina to Cuba. His father, Juan Martin Guevara, was Ernesto's youngest brother and aspired to emulate his older brother ("el Che"). Che in the years since his death in Bolivia had become a bigger-than-life character, with a reputation of myth-like proportions on the island and in the world. On arrival in Cuba, it became Martin's mandate to become like his uncle Che. This is the story of Martin...

En este libro el escritor cuenta los anos que vivio en La Habana; la vida cotidiana yvivencias del experimento conocido como "Revolucion cubana," con su puesta en escena de la doble moral. Relata como le afecto crecer a la sombra de un mito en una sociedad ya machista y autoritaria de por si, el contraste de sus ideas con el ideal de conducta revolucionaria, y su relacion con la familia padre, prisionero politico en su pais.Es una mirada critica desde los ojos de aquel nino, adolescente y joven a su vida intima, donde rememora la realidad social de su entorno en aquellos anos. Quiere Martin...