"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.
"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.
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