InQ Episode 109: "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"

This is the story of two brothers, Nestor and Cesar, fresh out of
Cuba, trying to make it as musicians in 1950’s New York.


Vibrant, exciting, full of life, the novel relates the brothers’
trials and tribulations on the music scene, night life in the
various clubs that hire them to play, love, sex, alcohol, fun and
partying. But it also deals with immigrants’ lives and with what
it means to grow old in the anonymity when you were once so
admired.


A Pulitzer winner and the basis for the movie “The Mambo Kings”
with Antonio Banderas, this is a deeper novel than it looks, full
of all the elements required to turn a novel into a Classic of
modern literature.