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It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the...
1 sty 2001 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 1950s New York, from literary trailblazer Oscar Hijuelos. It's 1949, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City.
15 gru 2015 · From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City.
25 wrz 2020 · Oscar Hijuelos' dizzyingly ambitious foot-tapping family epic, Mambo Kings Play the Songs of Love, opened the door for Latinx writers to tell their stories in all their richness.
In his second book, ''The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,'' Mr. Hijuelos is engaged in literary archeology, sifting through the remains of a vanished musical and ethnic heritage...
1 sty 2001 · by Oscar Hijuelos. 1. Why do you think Hijuelos would endow Cesar with such exaggerated sexuality? Why does he stretch the limits of believability? Is he satirizing or celebrating traditional Latino machismo? 2. What role does the I Love Lucy show play in the lives of the Castillo brothers?
14 lis 2013 · Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller: A “lush, tipsy, all-night mambo of a novel about Cuban musicians in strange places like New York City” (People). Brothers Nestor and Cesar...
