The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos
  • Published: 20 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141189666
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

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An extraordinary Pulitzer Prize winning novel about mambo, loss, and love

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

In 1949 two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings: packing out clubs, dance halls and theatres with their sensuous, pulsing Latin music. This is the captivating story of charming, vivacious womanizer Cesar and quiet, romantic Nestor - still nursing an unrequited love for 'beautiful Maria of my soul' - and their changing fortunes as they try to make it big in America.
  • Published: 20 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141189666
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Street-smart and lyrical, impassioned and reflective ... a rich and provocative book

The New York Times

By turns street-smart and lyrical, impassioned and reflective, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a rich and provocative book--a moving portrait of a man, his family, a community and a time

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The book is a hymn to music, to heterosexual love... There is a hedonism and pain, ecstasy and despair, devotion and lechery.... A fantastic novel

Evening Standard