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Waiting for Snow in Havana
- Confessions of a Cuban Boy
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain differences. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact.
Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changed: Batista was suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla took his place, and Christmas was cancelled. The echo of firing squads was everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear - spirited away to the United States. Carlos would end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again.
Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times when we are certain we have died - and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Waiting for Snow in Havana
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A POIGNANT RICHES TO RAGS STORY
What did you love best about Waiting for Snow in Havana?
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What other book might you compare Waiting for Snow in Havana to and why?
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There were some touching parts. He never really explained the hold Ernesto had over their father. If it was blackmail. he should have said so. Although his story is touching, it certainly could have survived without a lot of the philosophizing. that seemed to increase as the the story progressed.
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Poignant Coming of Age Story
Moving story about a boy's life in Cuba during the period of Castro's coming to power.
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Wonderful
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Both, and for the same reasons... The people, the country, the times and the culture.
Any additional comments?
Just wonderful, I can finally recommend a book to my American friends that explains what we Cuban American immigrants really experienced in pre and post-revolutionary Cuba. I am so glad that this story is finally being told and hopefully understood.
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The author takes you with him with beautiful words and captures this Cuban experience that transcends to many people in many cultures!
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- 05-23-19
A must-read for descendants of Cuban refugees
Being a daughter of Cuban refugees, I’ve always wanted to understand what it was like for my family to go through what they did. There are a lot of similarities to their stories. The only thing I wish they would have done was to have a Cuban narrate for the proper pronunciations of Spanish words.
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- Betty M Reeves
- 04-01-23
Sad tales of a man’s youth.
This was not as good as I hoped it would be. Instead of a novel, it was a memoir packed with the author’s festering, negative emotions. Perhaps the author could have better dealt with his feelings in therapy. Or perhaps a therapist recommended he write about them as his therapy. It also occurred to me that the narrator of the audiobook may have sounded angrier than the author felt.
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- Sheridan
- 06-01-16
Good, not great.
It was good. A little hard to follow at times because he would jump from memory to memory. I also wish he would have talked more about leaving Cuba but that might be the next book. my husband's family is Cuban so I love this kind of stuff.
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- Marilyn
- 07-25-15
I liked it more as it went along.
This is the third book on Cuba I have read since my recent trip there. I thought the narration was excellent, both for the first person and the voices of the other characters. I don't really see why others did not like the narrator.
At times the story wandered a bit, but I am sure it was intentional to illustrate the wandering of the boy's mind. I am not able to comment on the historical accuracy, but since this is a memoir, I take it to be the way the author remembers it. Lots of funny and interesting personal stories set within the larger issue of Cuba. Nostalgic for anyone brought up in the 1950's. It covers a lot of ground in the author's life, and does jump back and forth a bit, but there is no problem following what is going on. Definitely entertaining and a wonderful peek into the past of the author.
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