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The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love
Oscar Hijuelos
Hyperion
April 2010
On Sale: March 24, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 1401310028
EAN: 9781401310028
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"A rich and sorrowful novel . . . that alternates crisp
narrative with opulent musings--the language of everyday and
the language of longing. You finish feeling . . . ready to
throw up your arms and cry, Que bueno es! Mr. Hijuelos is
writing music of the heart."
--New York Times Book Review "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 When it was first published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play
Songs of Love became an international bestselling sensation,
winning rave reviews and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. To
celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel that changed the landscape of American literature
returns with a new afterword by Oscar Hijuelos. Here is the story of the memorable Castillo brothers,
émigrés from Havana to New York's Upper West Side. The
lovelorn songwriter Nestor and his macho brother Cesar find
success in the city's dance halls and beyond playing the
rhythms that earn them their band's name, as they struggle
with elusive fame and lost love in a richly sensual tale
that has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring favorite.
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