Book shows the private life of Mandela, 92

With each new book, which says the goal is to demystify Nelson Mandela, demonstrating their mistakes and weaknesses.

Each book, which promises humanizing "Madiba". But every attempt seems to fuel the myth of the ex-guerrilla who ended apartheid in South Africa

At 92 years, Mandela witnesses everything from afar, as Verne Harris warned the organizer of the introduction of "Conversations that I had with me" (Rocco, Trad. Angela Andrade, Jr. and Ana Nivaldo Montingelli Deiró, 416 pp., $ 39, 50), and do what you could never do: to live his private life.

The book presents personal documents, calendars, cards and pictures - stored since the late '60s when he was arrested by the years of presidency.

Here is an excerpt of a taped conversation with his former fellow prisoner and anti-apartheid struggle Ahmed Kathrada, between 1993 and 1998. Kathrada Mandela helped to review the audio files in the early 90s, at the time of production of the biography "Long Walk to Freedom."

There are simple notes, such as request to get shaving cream in his cell, and impressions of his meeting with Fidel Castro, the short section of road. Hard to see there, in humanity, the absence of the hero.