Waiting for Snow in Havana : Confessions of a Cuban Boy (Paperback)

from froxgirl

Eire was a young child of the ruling class when the Cuban Revolution came. Before, he had attended school with Battista's children and had lived in a mansion stuffed with the valuable artifacts and collections of his distant, eccentric father. As a boy, Carlos lived an idyllic life, surrounded by...

from mysteena

I didn't actually finish this but I still really enjoyed what I read. Written by a scholar, this is the memoir of his childhood in pre-Castro Cuba. At the age of 11 his parents shipped him and his brother to America and that was the last time he saw his father. He has a very entertaining and capt...

from Eye_Gee

This is the only memoire I've read by someone who lived through Castro's take over of Cuba. The author was 9 or 10-years old when the Revolution took place. By the time he was 11, Fidel was firmly in power, and his parents sent him to the U.S. where he knew no one. It took his mother 3 and a half...

from mysteena

I didn't actually finish this but I still really enjoyed what I read. Written by a scholar, this is the memoir of his childhood in pre-Castro Cuba. At the age of 11 his parents shipped him and his brother to America and that was the last time he saw his father. He has a very entertaining and capt...

from mysteena

I didn't actually finish this but I still really enjoyed what I read. Written by a scholar, this is the memoir of his childhood in pre-Castro Cuba. At the age of 11 his parents shipped him and his brother to America and that was the last time he saw his father. He has a very entertaining and capt...