Sold out but wanted!
Parameters
- 407 pages
- 15 hours of reading
More about the book
It's 1949. Two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. It is the era of the mambo, and 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 Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth—a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep affection. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss and memory and desire.
Book purchase
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos, Michiko Kakutani
- Language
- Released
- 1990
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Oscar Hijuelos, Michiko Kakutani
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 407
- ISBN10
- 0060973277
- ISBN13
- 9780060973278
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Romance, Music Theme, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Erotica, New York, Pulitzer Prize
- Original title
- The Mambo Kings play songs of love
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- It's 1949. Two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. It is the era of the mambo, and 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 Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth—a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep affection. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss and memory and desire.