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Search - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
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Book Description:
It's 1949. It's the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become by night stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth--a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep afection. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss, memory and desire.
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- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( H ) >> Hijuelos, Oscar
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Trisha D. from OREGON, WI wrote on 7/10/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Soulfully evocative and painfully beautiful glimpse into the world of two Cuban immigrant musicians who come to this country in 1949. The book is alive with the sounds and feel of Cuban music and provided a fascinating portrait of a culture I was not familiar with. The book throbbed with passion and timid readers may be alarmed by the graphic descriptions of the Mambo King's extremely active sex life! Nevertheless this is one fantastic book, gorgeously written and deeply moving.
L M M. from BROOKLYN, NY wrote on 2/16/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Probably not my favorite of the Pulitzers, but it's a quality book nevertheless.
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"Brilliant...memorable...a heady and powerful triumph...one of the most spectacularly vibrant and moving works by an American in years." - Alice Metcalf Miller, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Wonderful. You will want to listen to Cuban music and eat Cubin food after you read it!
Larraine F. from ABINGDON, MD wrote on 2/4/2005...Very interesting reading about the Cuban culture and music in the US post war era.
A sentimental view of the life of a Hispanic Mambo star. The movie, \"The Mambo Kings\" with Antonio Banderas was based on this book.