Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Waiting for snow in Havana

Oclc number

53906725

Responsibility statement

Carlos Eire

Sub title

confessions of a Cuban boy

Summary

In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. This stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience. Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos’s youth—with 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

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