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National Book Honor, Nonfiction, 2003 A years as a child in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain variations. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and find your roof. Browsing was conducted by travelling cars over the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made consistent contact. Carlos Eire's years as a child was just a little different from most. His father was convinced he previously been Louis XVI in a past life. At college, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were went to by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home filled with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the planet evolved: Batista was instantly vanished, a cigar-smoking guerrilla required his place, and Xmas was cancelled. The echo of firing squads was all over. And, one at a time, the author's schoolmates get started to go away - spirited away to america. Carlos would wrap up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of the confession, Holding out for Snow in Havana is both an ode to a heaven lost and an exorcism. More than that, it catches the bad beauty of these times when we are certain we have died - and then are in some way, miraculously, reborn.
