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Book Title: Los reyes del mambo
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The author of the book: Oscar Hijuelos
Edition: Emece
Date of issue: September 7th 2001
ISBN: 9500411830
ISBN 13: 9789500411837
Language: English
Format files: PDF
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1949. Dos jóvenes músicos procedentes de Cuba llegan a Nueva York con sus instrumentos bajo el brazo. Instalados en casa de un familiar, los hermanos Castillo trabajan durante el día y dedican sus noches a la música. Pronto se convierten en las estrellas de las salas de baile, en las que su orquesta toca boleros, mambos, rumbas y chachachás, la música sensual y brillante que los convertirá súbitamente en Los Reyes del Mambo.

Oscar Hijuelos realiza un maravilloso retrato de los hermanos Castillo, sus triunfos y sus tragedias, y revive toda una era gloriosa en la música de origen hispano y en la vida norteamericana. Recuperando la Nueva York que habitaron sus padres, Hijuelos crea una fascinante y rica obra sobre la pasión y la muerte, la memoria y el deseo, y compone una inolvidable canción de amor a la vida misma.

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Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He attended the Corpus Christi School, public schools, and later attended Bronx Community College, Lehman College, and Manhattan Community College before matriculating into and studying writing at the City College of New York (B.A., 1975; M.A. in Creative Writing, 1976). He then practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was adapted for the film The Mambo Kings in 1992 and as a Broadway musical in 2005.

Hijuelos has taught at Hofstra University and is currently affiliated with Duke University, where he is a member of the faculty of the Department of English.