The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel Radical Political Thought Moses Feldman

Moses Feldman

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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel Radical Political Thought Moses FeldmanFrom FSG Classics, a special twenty fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prizewinning novel It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their