Leaving Havana
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Leaving Havana
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Author : Conchita Hernandez Hicks
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-02
Leaving Havana written by Conchita Hernandez Hicks and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Cuba was a playground for the wealthy in the 1950s. It was a place to bask in the sun during the day, and enjoy many fine nightclubs, restaurants, theaters, and casinos after the sun went down. Many wealthy Americans traveled to Cuba for both business and pleasure. In January of 1959, everything changed. I was a little girl in Cuba at that time. I was living a life of luxury with practically anything that my little heart desired. My family had a chauffeur and homes in the city, in the country, and at the beach. I had my own nanny. I had parents and grandparents that loved me and lived close by so that I could see them almost every day. I was truly living a fairy-tale existence. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, my world came crashing down around me. Fidel Castro took over Cuba and made devastating changes to the country - and to the lives of those who lived there. The fairy tale quickly came to an end. Many difficult decisions had to be made by my parents and by many others. The world that we knew no longer existed. We had to leave loved ones and property behind. We had to move forward to a new life in a different country, with different customs, and a different language - and there was no turning back.
Leaving Little Havana
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Author : Cecilia M Fernandez
language : en
Publisher: Beating Windward Press
Release Date : 2015-01-06
Leaving Little Havana written by Cecilia M Fernandez and has been published by Beating Windward Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Revolution uprooted six-year-old Cecilia from her comfortable middle-class Cuban home and dropped her into the low-income neighborhood of Miami’s Little Havana. Her philandering father focused on rebuilding his career, chasing the American promise of wealth and freedom from the past. Her mother spiraled into madness trying to hold the family together and get him back. Neglected and trapped, Cecilia rebelled against her conservative culture and embraced the 1960s counter-culture - seeking love, attention and a place of her own in America. But immigrant children either thrive or self-destruct in a new land. How will Cecilia beat the odds? While most memoirs by Cuban-Americans revolve around childhood scenes in Cuba and explore the experiences of a young man, Leaving Little Havana is the first refugee memoir to focus on a Cuban girl growing up in America, rising above the obstacles and clearing a path to her American Dream. “Leaving Little Havana is the compelling story of a Cuban girl seeking a new life in the U.S. with her family as the Cuban revolution unfolds in the early sixties. 'Cecilita’s' personal account, and sexual awakening, is transparent, sad, and triumphant, sprinkled with anecdotes of an emerging Cuban-American landscape. In short, this book is a colorful reminiscence of historical scenes on both sides of the Straits of Florida, providing closure to a Cuban American journalist coming to terms with her turbulent past.” - Guarione M. Diaz, President Emeritus, Cuban American National Council “Cecilia Fernandez’s memoir of growing up Cuban in Miami is not only fascinating reading, it tells more about the story of Cubans in this U.S. than a truckload of sociology textbooks - and is a thousand times more entertaining!” - Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties “Leaving Little Havana is a candid, touching, and engaging memoir of a young Cuban exile’s coming of age. Cecilia Fernandez writes with passion and intensity, both of her missteps and her triumphs, casting fresh light on the American experience in the process.” - Les Standiford, author of Havana Run and Bringing Adam Home “Cecilia Fernandez gives us a coming of age story told with wide open eyes and vivid details of growing up in Little Havana. Broken-hearted more times than she can count, she gradually finds a path to new beginnings and the infinite promises of the American Dream. A poignant and important chronicle of the Miami Cuban immigrant journey.” - Ruth Behar, author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys “Every so often along comes a book that seizes you by the collar and arrests you on the spot. From page one, Leaving Little Havana is a brilliant, voice-driven book that will make your heart skip a few beats. My experience reading this book was similar to the first time I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros when you instantly know you are reading a classic, a story so achingly beautiful and unforgettable you relish every last word as if it were the buzzing of a hummingbird at your lips feeding you honey. This book is about family, about what happens to family in exile, about how people come into a great world of struggle and manage to get by and survive. The author has a great gift for capturing that world-known enclave of Miami we love and call Little Havana. This might be the book that puts it on the literary map for good and forever.” - Virgil Suárez, author of Latin Jazz, The Cutter, and 90 Miles: Selected and New Poems
When We Left Cuba
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Author : Chanel Cleeton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-04-09
When We Left Cuba written by Chanel Cleeton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Fiction categories.
Instant New York Times bestseller! In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart...
Leaving Havana
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Author : Conchita Hernandez Hicks
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-02
Leaving Havana written by Conchita Hernandez Hicks and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Cuba was a playground for the wealthy in the 1950s. It was a place to bask in the sun during the day, and enjoy many fine nightclubs, restaurants, theaters, and casinos after the sun went down. Many wealthy Americans traveled to Cuba for both business and pleasure. In January of 1959, everything changed. I was a little girl in Cuba at that time. I was living a life of luxury with practically anything that my little heart desired. My family had a chauffeur and homes in the city, in the country, and at the beach. I had my own nanny. I had parents and grandparents that loved me and lived close by so that I could see them almost every day. I was truly living a fairy-tale existence. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, my world came crashing down around me. Fidel Castro took over Cuba and made devastating changes to the country - and to the lives of those who lived there. The fairy tale quickly came to an end. Many difficult decisions had to be made by my parents and by many others. The world that we knew no longer existed. We had to leave loved ones and property behind. We had to move forward to a new life in a different country, with different customs, and a different language - and there was no turning back.
Waiting For Snow In Havana
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Author : Carlos Eire
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004-01-13
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 2004-01-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
Leave A Bag In Havana
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Author : S. McCrea
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-01-29
Leave A Bag In Havana written by S. McCrea and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with Travel categories.
Here is the list... Magazines**, Medical supplies, School supplies: Pens, Notebooks, USBs, CDs, Books**, Smartphones, Cameras, Laptop computer, Vitamins, Feminine items, Diapers, old corded "dial" phones, Videos, The format of the videos can be .mp4, which is easily played on any computer. The content should be educational and tasteful. If you wouldn't show the video to your grandmother or if your school principal would be offended, don't bring it. Videos on CD, DVD or USB.What else might you give to parents with their first infant? You might think about anything that you have found useful and you could bring that. A simple plug-in phone is okay. Someone will find it useful. The places where you will meet locals and find memories are Parque Lennon, the University of Havana, the **Cuba Libro English-language bookstore (Calles 24 and 19) and Old Havana. Send comments to the contact info located on TransformTeaching.org. See RoadloversInternational.com for more information.
Hijacked To Havana
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Author : Cesar Guerra
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-11
Hijacked To Havana written by Cesar Guerra and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with Fiction categories.
Hijacked to Havana! brings the reader back to 1969 when air piracy was a daily risk to all airline travelers. A young Cuban exile and his American wife find themselves aboard a plane hijacked to Havana. Can the young Cuban thwart the hijack? Carlos, the main character, is fearful of returning to his native land because of his previous involvement with Castro's revolutionary forces. Aboard the plane are a Navy SEAL and an elderly Hungarian freedom fighter who offers their help upon learning of the young exile's predicament. Unexpected twists add excitement to the drama aboard the hijacked airliner.
Havana Split
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Author : Teresa Bevin
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1998-06-30
Havana Split written by Teresa Bevin and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-30 with Fiction categories.
As a teenaged girl, Lara Canedo was torn from her roots when, at her motherÍs insistence, she left her native Havana for Spain as one of thousands of Cuban refugees of the late 1960s. Lara now finds herself, a mature adult, returning home ? but to a dilapidated capital that no longer resembles the city she left behind, and to a homeland that has been with her only subconsciously during twenty years in exile. As she revisits sites from her childhood and youth ? accompanied by Osvaldo, an old boyfriend hoping to rekindle their romantic past ? she encounters people and places that arouse suppressed memories. Even as she journeys through present and past, through subconscious and conscious, Lara crosses Cuba to visit her godmother, Clemencia, who has kept LaraÍs childhood journals for all these years. Reading through them allows Lara to clearly see the differences between then and now, reawakening her once-strong identity and granting her a sense of perspective she had never possessed before. Forced at last to confront the past after long denial, Lara is able to see the land of her birth anew, with eyes free of the unbridled and delusionary nostalgia she shares with so many exiles. She realizes that to remember means to actively acknowledge and use her memory to meld the split pieces of her life and so create a healing unity from them.
Havana
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Author : Claudia Lightfoot
language : en
Publisher: Signal Books
Release Date : 2002
Havana written by Claudia Lightfoot and has been published by Signal Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
An exploration of Havana's history and its paradoxes: a city where architectural treasures survive among the crumbling tenements; where a vibrant street life takes place amidst shortages; and where revolutionary politics, machismo and a thriving black market co-exist.
Raining Over Havana
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Author : Julio Travieso Serrano
language : en
Publisher: RUTH
Release Date : 2016-09-29
Raining Over Havana written by Julio Travieso Serrano and has been published by RUTH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Fiction categories.
Without any doubt "Raining over Havana" by Julio Travieso Serrano is a faithful portrait of Cuban life in the 1990's. Here we may find characters who move on the margins of Havana society: prostitutes, pimps, procurers, all of them marked by pain and despair but, at the same time, full of love, passion, humor and irony, and always fighting to subsist. Their existential conflicts and psychology have been carefully delineated by the author. Havana, dirty, chaotic, but always beautiful, impregnated by magic and mystery, could well be the main character of this novel that will definitely entrap readers, because from its initial pages they will want to know whether pain or love, life or death triumphs.