Waiting for Snow in Havana
Author: Carlos Eire
Narrated with the urgency of a confession, this work is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. Carlos Eire spent his childhood in an island paradise which vanished in 1959 with the arrival of Fidel Castro. He left his homeland at the age of 11 – airlifted out of Cuba to the US…..Read More
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