The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Related Titles
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is Oscar Hijuelos's second novel, and it continues the exploration of Cuban American experience that he began in his first book, Our House in the Last World (1983). Interestingly, Hijuelos was not afflicted by the sophomore curse, the common phenomenon of an author's second book being not as strong as the first. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love not only won the Pulitzer Prize, but it remains one of the most technically flamboyant of his novels, with its allusions to music and its fractured narrative. His third novel, The...
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