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Exuberantly celebrated from the moment it was published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990 (making Hijuelos the first Hispanic...
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"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" is a novel by Oscar Hijuelos that tells the story of two brothers, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who are immigrants from Cu...
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.
They are talented and willing to work hard, and with some luck, put together an orchestra (The Mambo Kings), riding the popularity of the mambo craze of the late 1940s. They even get a guest appearance on “I Love Lucy” after Desi Arnaz catches their nightclub act one evening.
1 sty 2000 · The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. Publication Date: January 1, 2000; Paperback: 464 pages; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN-10: 0060955457; ISBN-13: 9780060955458
1 sty 2001 · The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. 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?
