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His Illegal Self is a 2008 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award.
His Illegal Self is the story of Che "raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties.
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for him.
Utterly captivating. It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven-almost-eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young...
His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties.
With His Illegal Self (Knopf), The Australian-born (and now New York-residing) Peter Carey has written an odd, syncopated, beautiful, and emotionally compelling novel about the child of '60s radicals on the run.
"His Illegal Self is the story of Che - raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother; he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties.
