From Cuba With Love My Father S American Success Story
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From Cuba With Love My Father S American Success Story
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Author : Chris Umpierre
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-11-15
From Cuba With Love My Father S American Success Story written by Chris Umpierre and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with categories.
Discover how a Cuban native left his homeland after Fidel Castro's communist takeover, trained for a massive planned U.S. military attack on Castro and overcame language and cultural barriers to excel in America. "From Cuba with Love" details Pablo Umpierre's idyllic childhood before communism. Castro nationalized all businesses, including the robust retail business Umpierre's father had worked a lifetime to create. Pablo Umpierre chose to leave his parents, brother and extended family for a new life. When he arrived in Miami on June 16, 1962, Pablo Umpierre had just 10 cents to his name. Pablo Umpierre ended up joining a top-secret Cuban brigade commissioned by the U.S. Army. Learn about the underreported volunteer Cuban battalion, where the group trained, how the group was honorably discharged, how Umpierre settled in Los Angeles, Calif., met singer Dean Martin, found the love of his life and started a family.
Waiting For Snow In Havana
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Author : Carlos Eire
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-12-11
Waiting For Snow In Havana written by Carlos Eire and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Escape From Cuba
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Author : Eloy L. Nuñez
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-01-10
Escape From Cuba written by Eloy L. Nuñez and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-10 with History categories.
In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. In response, thousands of Cubans fled the island, mostly to the United States. This book tells the stories of these Cubans in exile, all of whom overcame great obstacles to escape the brutal Castro regime. Neither a history of Cuba nor of Castro, this book illuminates the underrepresented legacy of the Cuban Exile Community and celebrates their continued thriving in a new country.
Dreaming In Cuban
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Author : Cristina García
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-06-08
Dreaming In Cuban written by Cristina García and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Fiction categories.
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
American Dream American Nightmare
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Author : Kathryn Hume
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15
American Dream American Nightmare written by Kathryn Hume and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo. Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.
Latinasian Cartographies
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Author : Susan Thananopavarn
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Latinasian Cartographies written by Susan Thananopavarn and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with History categories.
LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence in the United States, although often considered marginal in discourses of American history and nationhood, is in fact crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed historically and continues to be constructed in the present day. Thananopavarn creates a new “LatinAsian” view of the United States that emphasizes previously suppressed aspects of national history, including imperialism, domestic racism during World War II, Cold War operations in Latin America and Asia, and the politics of borders in an age of globalization. LatinAsian Cartographies ultimately reimagines national narratives in a way that transforms dominant ideas of what it means to be American.
Letters From Cuba
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Author : Ruth Behar
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Letters From Cuba written by Ruth Behar and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Esther's evocative letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it's too late. Based on Ruth Behar's family history, this compelling story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the most challenging times.
Cabaret The Beat Of My Heart
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Author : Krystal Predoux
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-03-16
Cabaret The Beat Of My Heart written by Krystal Predoux and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-16 with Fiction categories.
Candice and Sarabella became friends in college, not troubled by their race. They see past the color of their skin. Sarabella is a wealthy white twenty one year old and Candice is a African American twenty year old. The two college students go to Fordham University in New York and are roommates. Sarabella and Candice grow found of each other, they share their secrets and life while living as roommates. Sarabella has a boyfriend named Jonathan who wants to be a major league baseball player. He plays for Fordham University and is their top player. Johnathan was discovered to be unfaithful in his relationship to Sarabella. Sarabella struggles with taking him back, but because she loves him, they make it work. While Sarabella is growing into a woman, Candice is still trying to find her way in life. Candice meets a African American man named Olivier that she is smitten by. They go to a baseball game and they hang out together. Although Candice likes Olivier.She only sees him as a friend and is in love with Broderick. Candice's crush Broderick is already in a relationship and is in love with his girlfriend. Candice sees that and begins to come to her senses. She realizes that being with Broderick is a fantasy. Candice sees Olivier as more than a friend sometime down the line. Eventually she starts to see Oliver as a candidate for a potential lover. Olivier talks to Candice on the phone. While on a trip to San Francisco and they agree to move their friendship to lovers. Their relationship blossoms and they enjoy each others company. Jerry, Olivier's cousin got him into some trouble. While in San Francisco they kill a club owner.Olivier didn't want it to go that far but he wanted to get back to New York. In order for him to get to New York he had to rob someone that Pat, Jerry's friend knew. The guilt weighed on Olivier's mind, Sarabella is wanting to become an actress and gets a part in Wind In My Hair, where she stars as the main character. Before the audition she is worried that she wouldn't make it on time, and has a nervous breakdown. Jonathan calms her down and she makes it to her audition. She played the role well and got the part. Candice is also finding herself .She sings at bars and clubs with her band. She holds onto the dream that one day she will make it. Candice meets a record executive at a cafe she was performing at. The record executive likes what he sees in Candice. They talk and she is offered a record deal and she begins to perform and travel with Charles. Charles becomes likened to Candice and he desires her to be his companion. Candice is seeing past all his advances and she focuses on her career. Olivier is a successful lawyer and is in love with Candice and Candice feels the same love for Olivier. During this time Olivier is succeeding in his career. Jerry gets into some trouble that leads Olivier into doing Jerry a favor. As a favor to his cousin he meets the head boss of an Italian crime gang. He helps them with their legal cases and gets money for his services. Oliver gets paid extremely well so he continues to be involved with the mob. He starts to realize that he was becoming someone his mother didn't raise him to be, but because he was making so much money he didn't think of his morals.Candice and Olivier get married and for a while the relationship is good. But within the relationship, Olivier is holding a secre
From Cuba With Love And Back
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Author : Ernesto Garcia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-13
From Cuba With Love And Back written by Ernesto Garcia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-13 with categories.
To many older Americans, and especially those living in South Florida, Cuban immigration begins on page one of 1961, when the U.S. opened it's generous arms to welcome a mass exodus from Cuba. However, there is a slice of pre-1961 South Florida "Cuban" life that I dusted off and brought to the pages of "From Cuba With Love, & Back."The book is an endearing recollection of a Cuban family growing up in Miami, Florida. The antebellum days of fifteen years prior to the 1959 Cuban revolution and the mass exodus of 1961. "From Cuba With Love, & Back," depicts the softer, gentler sound and pace of the few Cubans who were already living in America.My parents did not pack political bags to come to America. They packed a suitcase with hopes and dreams. In 1945, my mother and father arrived in the United States, with the hope of finding steady work and the basic necessities to raise a loving family and provide for their children. For fifteen years, our home, neighborhood and Miami was nothing more than an idyllic landscape. Suddenly and unlike all the previous New Year's, when we as kids, would light firecrackers on dimly-lit Miami streets, a greater burst of light exploded on the streets of Havana on January 1, 1959! Cuba was undergoing a political overhaul. So too, our homes in quiet and quaint Miami, would soon thereafter become forums of intense discussions as only many Cubans know how to "discuss," by yelling! Miami would never again be quiet.
Cuban American Literature And Art
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Author : Isabel Alvarez Borland
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2009-01-26
Cuban American Literature And Art written by Isabel Alvarez Borland and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultures. The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups—hybrid identities, biculturation, bilingualism, immigration, adaptation, and exile. The complex ways in which Cuban Americans have been able to keep a living memory of Cuba while developing and thriving in America are both intriguing and instructive. These essays, written from a variety of perspectives, range from useful overviews of fictional and visual works of art to close readings of individual texts.