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Also by Carlos Eire:

Waiting for Snow in Havana, January 2011
Hardcover
Learning to Die in Miami, November 2010
Hardcover
A Very Brief History of Eternity, November 2009
Hardcover
War against the Idols, February 1989
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Waiting for Snow in Havana
Carlos Eire

Confessions of a Cuban Boy

Free Press
January 2011
On Sale: December 24, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0743246411
EAN: 9780743246415
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

"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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