January 10, 2005

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Last week, reader Raul sent me the book "Waiting for Snow in Havana - Confessions of a Cuban Boy" by Carlos Eire. (Gracias again, Raul.) All I can say about it is that it's brilliant.

In this memoir, Carlos Eire eloquently takes us to his life in Cuba pre-castro and his journey to the US, alone at the age of 11. When everything changed.

If you havent read this book, I wholeheartedly recommend it. You will go on a a sometimes beautiful, sometimes troubling journey.

I was so taken by this work that I contacted Mr. Eire and thanked him profusely. Told him that I felt as if I was living a childhood that was denied me. Mr. Eire kindly responded and agreed to let me pose a few questions, an interview, to be posted here at Babal�.

If you have read Waiting for Snow and want to ask the author a few questions, drop a comment here on this post or email me. Ill probably be sending Mr. Eire the questions at the end of the week and will post them as soon as he replies.

And please, go buy the book. You wont regret it.

Posted by Val Prieto at January 10, 2005 08:26 AM



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Val;

I watched Mr. Eire's presentation on C-Span 2's 'Book TV'. He was brilliant there too. I'll read the book as soon as possible.

Posted by: Sorge at January 10, 2005 10:30 AM

The book was wonderful, especially as I grew up in South Florida at the same time he did and the images are all so familiar.

I'd be interested in knowing what impact his early religious influences in Cuba had on his choice of his current profession. I'm looking forward to the interview.

Posted by: Mimi at January 10, 2005 11:04 AM

I read "Waiting for Snow in Havana" last year. It was a tremendous experience. It should be required reading for every freedom-loving Cuban-American. I work in the media and am confronted daily with the nasty whiff of leftism running rampant in news organizations. The delicious irony, of course, is that my colleagues (alas, I as well) would be among the first of the "paredones" in the unlikely event that their perfect society should reinvent itself here.

Posted by: Ray at January 17, 2005 09:36 PM