Havana A Son S Journey Home
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Havana A Son S Journey Home
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Author : Betty Viamontes
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-09-23
Havana A Son S Journey Home written by Betty Viamontes and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-23 with Fiction categories.
By the author of the award-winning book "Waiting on Zapote Street," another epic saga that will take readers into an unforgettable journey. When Rodolfo Hernandez's mother forces him to leave Cuba alone, nine years after Fidel Castro comes to power, he doesn't suspect the twists and turns his life would take. But nothing could prepare him for his encounter with his uncle Arturo in Miami, a man who seemed to care little about Rodolfo and anyone else around him, a troubled man with a secret past who would take him years to understand. When Rodolfo begins the twelfth grade at Miami High School, he meets Lissy, a girl with geeky glasses who offers to help him assimilate into a new culture and master a new language. As Rodolfo struggles to understand his uncle, tries to comprehend the changes occurring within the United States as a result of the Vietnam War, and deals with unforeseen events that his parents are facing in Cuba, he fails to understand Lissy and her motivation to help him, a mistake he recognizes when it is almost too late.Havana: A Son's Journey Home also explores the question: Where is home? Is it where we are born, or where our dreams come true? It is a novel that will take readers on an engaging historical adventure that will make them laugh and cry.
Prague My Long Journey Home
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Author : Charles Ota Heller
language : en
Publisher: Abbott Press
Release Date : 2011
Prague My Long Journey Home written by Charles Ota Heller and has been published by Abbott Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Author Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced. In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his family's story—a family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared. Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to a slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old. Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the past—along with his birth name—behind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritage—one which he had abandoned decades earlier.
Son Of Havana
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Author : Luis Tiant
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2019-05-14
Son Of Havana written by Luis Tiant and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro’s Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend. Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball history. With a barrel-chested physique and a Fu Manchu mustache, Tiant may not have looked like the lean, sculpted aces he usually played against, but nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be no more qualified twentieth-century pitcher not yet enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His big-league dreams came at a price: racism in the Deep South and the Boston suburbs, and nearly fifteen years separated from a family held captive in Castro’s Cuba. But baseball also delivered World Series stardom and a heroic return to his island home after close to a half-century of forced exile. The man whose name—“El Tiante” —became a Fenway Park battle cry has never fully shared his tale in his own words, until now. In Son of Havana, Tiant puts his heart on his sleeve and describes his road from torn-up fields in Havana to the pristine lawns of major league ballparks. Readers will share Tiant’s pride when appeals by a pair of US senators to baseball-fanatic Castro secure freedom for Luis’s parents to fly to Boston and witness the 1975 World Series glory of their child. And readers will join the big-league ballplayers for their spring 2016 exhibition game in Havana, when Tiant—a living link to the earliest, scariest days of the Castro regime—threw out the first pitch.
No Way Home
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Author : Carlos Acosta
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2008-05-06
No Way Home written by Carlos Acosta and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this literary "Billy Elliot," international ballet star Acosta relates his journey from the impoverished suburbs of Havana to stardom and fame on ballet stages throughout Cuba, America, and Europe. 8 pages of b&w photos.
The Hemingway Log
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Author : Brewster Chamberlin
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2015-03-20
The Hemingway Log written by Brewster Chamberlin and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer’s life and times as comprehensive, detailed, and useful as The Hemingway Log. For more than a dozen years, Brewster Chamberlin “has been compiling and wonderfully annotating and continuously updating what amounts to almost a daybook calendar of Hemingway’s life,” as author Paul Hendrickson noted in his acclaimed Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost. At long last available to readers and scholars, this chronology extends from the birth of Mark Twain (whose Huckleberry Finn, Hemingway said, was the source of all modern American literature) to the 2013 publication of the second volume (of a projected seventeen) of the Hemingway letters. Throughout, the events and dates that had any influence whatsoever on the writer are detailed day by day. Who won the Nobel Prize in literature each year, for instance, or the Pulitzer? What works of poetry, fiction, or drama were published? What was happening in the world and in the country, and how did it relate to Hemingway? Within this clarifying context, the chronological facts of the writer’s own life and work unfold: literary production and publishing; travels and households; activities and relevant occurrences; relations with family, friends, lovers, and enemies. Drawing on biographies, memoirs, and various Hemingway collections and websites, as well as the full range of original sources such as letters, fishing logs, notebooks, and manuscripts, The Hemingway Log presents the most extensive and accurate chronology of Hemingway’s life and times—and in the process clears up many of the inconsistencies and factual errors that riddle accounts of the writer’s life and work. Any future scholar of Hemingway will find the book not just invaluable but absolutely necessary, and any serious reader of Hemingway will find it irresistible.
Latina Os And World War Ii
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Author : Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Latina Os And World War Ii written by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Social Science categories.
This eye-opening anthology documents, for the first time, the effects of World War II on Latina/o personal and political beliefs across a broad spectrum of ethnicities and races within the Latina/o identity.
Music Trades
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Music Trades written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with categories.
Latina Os And World War Ii
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Author : Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Latina Os And World War Ii written by Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Social Science categories.
This eye-opening anthology documents the effects of WWII on Latina/o personal and political beliefs across a broad spectrum of ethnicities and races. The first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a wide spectrum of identities and ancestries—from Cuban American, Spanish American, and Mexican American segments to the under-studied Afro-Latino experience—Latina/os and World War II probes the controversial aspects of Latina/o soldiering and citizenship in the war, the repercussions of which defined the West during the twentieth century. The editors also offer a revised, more accurate tabulation of the number of Latina/os who served in the war. Spanning imaginative productions, such as vaudeville and the masculinity of the soldado razo theatrical performances; military segregation and the postwar lives of veterans; Tejanas on the homefront; journalism and youth activism; and other underreported aspects of the wartime experience, the essays collected in this volume showcase rarely seen recollections. Whether living in Florida in a transformed community or deployed far from home (including Mexican Americans who were forced to endure the Bataan Death March), the men and women depicted in this collection yield a multidisciplinary, metacritical inquiry. The result is a study that challenges celebratory accounts and deepens the level of scholarly inquiry into the realm of ideological mobility for a unique cultural crossroads. Taking this complex history beyond the realm of war narratives, Latina/os and World War II situates these chapters within the broader themes of identity and social change that continue to reverberate in postcolonial lives.
Afro Cuban Diasporas In The Atlantic World
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Author : Solimar Otero
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2010
Afro Cuban Diasporas In The Atlantic World written by Solimar Otero and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation. Solimar Otero is Associate Professor of English and a folklorist at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature and ethnography. Dr. Otero is the recipient of a Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund grant (2013), a fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program (2009 to 2010), and a Fulbright award (2001).
Havana Beyond The Ruins
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Author : Anke Birkenmaier
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Havana Beyond The Ruins written by Anke Birkenmaier and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with Architecture categories.
Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.