· In , at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14, children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household -- and of being exiled from his own childhood by the Cuban revolution/5. 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, /5(). Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Carlos Eire Henry Pérez, Ph.D. Professor of Foreign Languages Waiting for Snow in Havana enters a very crowded arena of excellent memoirs, written in English, about young Cubans growing up both in Cuba and in the United States. In , Pablo Medina published Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood.
Eire is from a prominent Cuban family with tremendous wealth and influence. His beautifully crafted memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy(Free Press), winner of the National Book Award, tells the story of an ordinary boy caught up in the events of an extraordinary time. Eire's vivid prose brings readers face to. Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy is a book by Carlos Eire and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The book is autobiographical, about the author's experiences as part of Operation Peter Pan. Waiting for Snow in Havana.: "Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.". In , Carlos Eire was one of 14, 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.
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