The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
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| The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | |
 First edition cover |
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| Author | Oscar Hijuelos |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date | August 21, 1989 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 408 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0374201250 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos.
It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to the United States and settle in New York City in the early 1950s.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990, being the first novel by an American-born Hispanic to do so. [1] It was the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005.
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[edit] External links
- Dancing into the Dream: Review at the NYTimes.
- Photos of the first edition of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
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| Preceded by Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1990 |
Succeeded by Rabbit At Rest by John Updike |
