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082	1		_aLAS 92 EIR _2
100	1		_aEire, Carlos
245	1	0	_aWaiting for snow in Havana : _bconfessions of a Cuban boy _c/ Carlos Eire
260			_aNew York _b: Free Press _c, c2003
300			_a396 p. _b: illus. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aIn 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.
546			_aEnglish
586			_aNational book Award winner
600	1	4	_aEire Carlos _x-Childhood and youth
610	2	4	_aOperation Peter Pan
650		4	_aCuban Americans _x-Biography
650		4	_aRefugee children _z-United States _x-Biography
651		4	_aHavana, Cuba
651		4	_aHavana _x-Social life and customs _x-Biography
651		4	_aHavana (Cuba) _x-Social conditions _y-20th century.
651		4	_aCuba _x-History _y-1959-
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