Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, the precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbour who predicts 'They will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here.' Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, as he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely, confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. "His Illegal Self" is an achingly beautiful and emotional story of the love between a young woman and a little boy, and a wonderful journey of self-discovery
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El australiano Peter Carey es autor de trece novelas, entre las que destacan Oscar y Lucinda (Alfaguara), La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly (El Aleph Editores), Mi vida de farsante (Random House), El embaucador (Alfaguara), La naturaleza de las lágrimas (Alfaguara). Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Booker y sus otros premios incluyen el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth y el Premio Literario Miles Franklin.