The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It concerns itself with the lives of two Cuban brothers who immigrate to the United States, settling in New York City in the early 1950s.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990, and is the basis for the 1992 motion picture The Mambo Kings (produced as a musical in 2005).

Preceded by
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1990
Succeeded by
Rabbit At Rest
by John Updike