by Oscar Hijuelos · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422634683
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«Los reyes del mambo tocan canciones de amor» is the novel by Oscar Hijuelos, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (472 pages, in Spanish).
Two Cuban musician brothers arrive in New York in 1949 with their instruments and, after working by day, devote their nights to music. Their orchestra of boleros, mambos, rumbas and cha-cha-chás turns them into stars of the dance halls and the kings of mambo.
First installment of the Mambo Kings series; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990 and was adapted into a movie in 1992. Translation by Alejandro García Reyes.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in Latin music, the Cuban community in New York and emigrant artists.
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American novelist of Cuban descent, during a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
