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Mambo Kings #1
Los reyes del mambo
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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.
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.
549 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1989
This edition
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549 pages, Paperback
- Published
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January 1, 2001 by Emece
- ISBN
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9789500411837
- ASIN
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9500411830
- Language
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Spanish; Castilian
About the author
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Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951) was 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 at Duke University.
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 at Duke University.
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