num_pages: 448
description: It's 1949. It's the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. 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. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss, memory and desire.
language: English
title: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
titlecomplete: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Music, New York, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 12245
places: New York City, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York
series: Mambo Kings
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: HarpPerenM