Waiting For Snow In Havana

  • Waiting For Snow In Havana
    Waiting For Snow In Havana
    By Carlos Eire

    The fuse vanished, the last spark flew, and nothing. Zilch. I was mad. It was my third or fourth dud that day. I thought I had waited long enough, but as I reached for the firecracker my dad and my brother and my friends shouted at me ...

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    By Carlos Eire

    A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    By Carlos Eire

    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.

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    By Carlos Eire

    This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father.

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    By Carlos M. N. Eire

    Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    By Carlos Eire

    Carlos Eire's National Book Award-winning memoir of his childhood in 1950s Havana and the overnight upheaval of his world in January 1959, when the Batista government was toppled.