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It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos - 1 Minute Summary #1Min1Book #BookSummary #TheMamboKingsPlaySongsOfLove #OscarHijuelos #CubanMusic #Imm...
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.
"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...
Cesar and his younger brother Nestor arrive in New York full of ambition and desire to be musicians. 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.
1 sty 2000 · 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.
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...
