Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel

This Pulitzer Prize-winning international bestseller follows two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50s New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos.

It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo K...