The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Techniques
Hijuelos informs readers from the very first page that they will have to work to understand his novel. The novel's epigraph, a relevant quotation from another work that provides readers with important clues about what they are about to read, appears to be taken from the album liner notes of an old record called The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Many readers will wonder whether there actually was a band called the Mambo Kings and thus whether the novel they are about to read is completely fictional. Hijuelos further confuses reality and fiction as the novel proper opens. Eugenio...
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