Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

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Summary: My Favorite Book!!!
Review: This is a great Book! It is my favorite! This is how every Cuban child feels when they are pulled out of the country they love. I recommend this book to all who want to understand that socialism/communism does NOT work. I recommend this also to All Cubans, because at one point or another we feel nostalgic!

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Summary: Crocodile Tears in Havana
Review: This is a misty-eyed memoir of an egoistical man who had a very privileged childhood. Because that idealized world was sundered, he believes he has a deeper take on suffering and displacement and he asks the reader to sympathize with his plight and along the way, to blame it all on Castro. The writing is precious, almost cloyingly so--one would expect a historian to be more careful of his language. If the Cuba he remembers is a paradise lost, then he needs to move on. Cuba has survived well enough without him.