It's 1949. It's the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make
their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. The Castillo
brothers, workers by day, become by night stars of the dance halls, where
their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the
title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth--a golden time that
thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep afection. In
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and
enthralling novel about passion and loss, memory and desire.