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Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy / Carlos Eire

By:

Eire, Carlos

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Free Press , c2003Description: 396 p. : illus. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780743246415

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 92 EIR

LOC classification:

E184.C97 E37 2003

Awards:

National book Award winner

Summary: In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir. Waiting for snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos's youth - when its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas - becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Fidel Castro ousts President Batista on January 1, 1959. Suddenly the music in the streets sounds like gunfire. Christmas is made illegal, political dissent leads to imprisonment, and too many of Carlos's friends are leaving Cuba for a place as far away and unthinkable as the United States. Carlos will end up there, too, and fulfill his mother's dreams by becoming a modern American man - even if his soul remains in the country he left behind. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is a eulogy for a native land and a loving testament to the collective spirit of Cubans everywhere.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LAS 92 EIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027908

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In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir. Waiting for snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos's youth - when its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas - becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Fidel Castro ousts President Batista on January 1, 1959. Suddenly the music in the streets sounds like gunfire. Christmas is made illegal, political dissent leads to imprisonment, and too many of Carlos's friends are leaving Cuba for a place as far away and unthinkable as the United States. Carlos will end up there, too, and fulfill his mother's dreams by becoming a modern American man - even if his soul remains in the country he left behind. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is a eulogy for a native land and a loving testament to the collective spirit of Cubans everywhere.

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