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

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Book Review: Everything you wanted to know about the Real Cuba by a Cuban
Summary: 5 Stars

es- I admit it. I have read WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA and have returned to those days when I could finish a book at one sitting, not caring if that meant I had to read through the night and early morning hours .

Picture a Cuban ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER OR HUCKLEBERRY FINN with the beautiful, tropical, picturesque setting of 1950's Cuba as the background AND THEN envision the beginnings and first stirrings of government upheaval(the Cuban Revolution). THROW into the mix an eccentric father and family members, private catholic schools taught by strict Jesuit priests who cater to the wealthy and elite families of Havana and you have the beginnings of a great new autobiography out now in hardback by a wonderful new Latin American Writer by the name of Carlos Eire. EIRE, a professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University is no stranger to the world of writing but as he says himself and says it best ,"This is my first book without footnotes".
While all of this may be considered interesting enough it is the warm charming tone of the writer himself that grabs you and takes you under his spell weaving in and out with tales and images that are SO vivid in his memory that you start to think that YOU were also there!! At times hilariously funny and sometimes achingly sad one runs the full gamut of emotions in one sitting.
Taking into account the current news stories of the day with the identification of an island nation(so close in proximity to the U.S.) that is in its last desperate gasps of survival in an increasingly anti-dictatorship tolerant world one is well served by reading WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA

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