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Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy / Carlos Eire.

Eire, Carlos M. N. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0743246411
  • ISBN: 9780743246415
  • Physical Description: 390 pages : illustrations ; 22cm
  • Edition: 1st Free Press pbk. edition
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2004.

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General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: c2003.

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Subject:
Eire, Carlos M. N. > Childhood and youth.
Eire, Carlos M. N. > Family.
Operation Pedro Pan.
Cuban Americans > Biography.
Refugee children > United States > Biography.
Havana (Cuba) > Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) > Biography.
Havana (Cuba) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Havana (Cuba) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Cuba > History > Revolution, 1959 > Personal narratives.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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