The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Character 1
Cesar Castillo
Cesar is the focus of this novel. Except for a few pages at the beginning and a few at the end that are narrated by his nephew Eugenio, the book concerns Cesar sitting in a room at the Hotel Splendour in 1980, drinking and listening to the recordings he and his group, the Mambo Kings, made in the 1940s and 50s. He is sixty-two years old, depressed because his health is failing him, and purposely drinking himself to death because he can no longer drink or have sex, which were his main pursuits in life.
Cesar’s reminiscences bounce around in no...
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