Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Author(s): Hijuelos, Oscar Publisher: Perennial Format: Paperback List Price:  Rs. 678 Category: Classics ISBN-10: 0060845309 Language: English Pages: 448 Dimensions: N/A

Overview:

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 affection. Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss, memory and desire.