Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Eire, Carlos

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

"Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children...
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Author: Carlos Eire
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Eire, Carlos

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

$30.76

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

$30.76
Author: Carlos Eire
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." 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. Winner of the National Book Award, 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.

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.

Author: Carlos Eire
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 01/13/2004
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.54w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780743246415


Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 03/01/2004 pg. 8
Booksense '76 Mar/Apr_2004 03/01/2004 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72

About the Author
Eire, Carlos: - Carlos Eire was born in Havana in 1950 and left his homeland in 1962, one of fourteen thousand unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan. After living in a series of foster homes, he was reunited with his mother in Chicago in 1965. Eire earned his PhD at Yale University in 1979 and is now the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with his wife, Jane, and their three children.

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