The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
by Oscar Hijuelos
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- SIGNED / VG-/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374201250
- ISBN 13
- 9780374201258
- Seller
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Synopsis
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. It was the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005.
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- Bookseller
- Magus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1351038
- Title
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Author
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - SIGNED / VG-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374201250
- ISBN 13
- 9780374201258
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- August 1989
- Pages
- 408
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