description: Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. 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.
language: English
title: Waiting For Snow in Havana
titlecomplete: Waiting For Snow in Havana
genres: Biography, Book Club, Latin American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Adult, Autobiography, Travel, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 7251
places: Havana, Cuba
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Thorndike Press