The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Author: Hijuelos, Oscar
ISBN: 9780141189666
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 20 Apr 2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780141189666
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 20 Apr 2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
