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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

Carlos Eire

Carlos Eire's National Book Award-winning memoir of his childhood in 1950s Havana and the overnight upheaval of his world in January 1959, when the Batista government was toppled.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · high confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -> BiographyLiterary Biography

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2003WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Carlos Eire86%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Havana90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The memoir presents Carlos Eire’s childhood in 1950s Havana and portrays January 1959’s political overthrow as an event that abruptly overturns his world.

    Model confidence 72%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    34 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 84%.