by Oscar Hijuelos · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140143911
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«The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love» is the literary fiction novel by Oscar Hijuelos, published by Penguin in paperback (416 pages, in English).
In 1949, the Castillo brothers, two Cuban musicians, travel from Havana to New York and, after working by day, triumph by night in the dance halls to the rhythm of the mambo. The novel follows their youth, their loves, and the nostalgia with which, years later, they remember that golden era in the big city.
First installment of the Mambo Kings series. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990 and made Oscar Hijuelos the first Hispanic writer to achieve it.
For readers of narrative about music, emigration, and nightlife in New York.
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.
