Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

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"In the novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos, immigrants from Cuba in the 1940s travel from Havana to New York to perform music in the dance halls of the period while working at whatever jobs they can get during the day. The road taken by these two brothers is one that has been taken by many others, the road to stardom in whatever field has been chosen. These two want to be mambo kings, but just as have thousands before them, they follow in the footsteps of people they admire (in this case Desi Arnaz and Xavier Cugat), they do whatever they can to be heard and seen, they work at menial job while they hone their art, and they make their way to America as the citadel of opportunity for musicians as for others. The book does a better job of creating a sense of what it means to be an immigrant in a strange land than it does with some of the.."

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