The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: May 4, 2010
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781401310028
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- Authors, A-Z -- ( H ) -- Hijuelos, Oscar; Literature & Fiction -- Literary
First sentence: It was a Saturday afternoon on La Salle Street, years and years ago when I was a little kid, and around three o'clock Mrs. Shannon, the heavy Irish woman in her perpetually soup-stained dress, opened her back window and shouted out into the courtyard, "Hey, Cesar, yoo-hoo, I think you're on television, I swear it's you!"