false 201113 11 "Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, 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, cut short when he was just eleven years old, are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir. <I>Waiting for Snow in Havana</I> 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, <I>Waiting for Snow in Havana</I> is a eulogy for a native land and a loving testament to the collective spirit of Cubans everywhere.<P> 83317 24 12 2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy total:899|5:254|4:312|3:223|2:76|1:34| 899 3373 1389 220 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 0 1 false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 07:27:45 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 10:25:04 -0700 2008
Here's a sample from p.13: "The waves, those turquoise waves... lapping, lapping, lapping endlessly, eternally. Even in the worst of storms th...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 3 0 false Fri May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 24 10:25:12 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 10:25:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Wed Jul 29 05:28:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 05:29:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:45:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 13:26:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:27:49 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:36:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 3 1 false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 17:52:01 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:32:18 -0700 2009 1
The first half captured me-I thought the author did a great job of writing so I could feel exactly what he fel...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 14:30:34 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 14:56:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 5 1 false Fri Apr 10 07:20:01 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 07:30:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 209782 0743219651 9780743219655 43 14 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172706459m/209782.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209782.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 3 0 false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 19:41:54 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:53:49 -0700 2009 What interested me was how life changed with Castro: the execu...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 07:41:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 06:53:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 209782 0743219651 9780743219655 43 14 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172706459m/209782.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209782.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 05:55:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 17:12:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 3 0 false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 08:40:33 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:41:36 -0700 2009
It started off well -- with those wonderful childhood memories of a perfe...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 2 0 false Tue Nov 18 15:39:46 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 15:58:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 1 0 true Fri Aug 08 04:19:50 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 04:20:03 -0700 2008 Sure, he overcomes a great deal in his life. We all do in different ways. And his anger is still ripe—over...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 3 0 false Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 11:54:03 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 09:25:10 -0700 2008
That said....what Eire's writing about is how devastating Castro's take...more...]]> 86334 1416544720 9781416544722 85 20 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171067226m/86334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86334.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Philadelphia_Selection_book_1 5 0 false Sat Mar 29 19:50:07 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 13:50:01 -0700 2008
"The world chan...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 2 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 21:09:12 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 09:42:12 -0700 2007
IMHO they tried to do too much with this story. What I thought...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jul 02 16:09:04 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 15:21:05 -0700 2007
As a memoir it is OK. The failing of the book for me was the one-sidedness of the story. Normally t...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 0 0 false Mon Jan 12 00:02:38 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 00:20:19 -0800 2009
My family moved to S.Florida at about the same time as the 'air lift' of Cuban children and I remember a few of those kids that eventually joined the classrooms where I went to Middle an...more...]]> 201113 0743246411 9780743246415 764 185 3.75 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201113.Waiting_for_Snow_in_Havana_Confessions_of_a_Cuban_Boy 4 0 false Sat May 31 04:50:24 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 18:35:19 -0700 2008
One of the most striking things about Eire's writing, in addition to being beautiful, it how uniquely nonlinear it is. I've never read a book that floats through time in this way, wi...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=201113