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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos The son of pre-Revolutionary Cuban immigrants, Oscar Hijuelos was born in the Upper West Side of New York City in 1951. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the City...

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to the United States and settle in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel won...

In his richly implicative study of Caribbean culture, The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo charts the region's poetics in almost geographical terms as a dialectic between chaos and insistent pattern: "[W]ithin its historiographic turbulence and its ethnological and linguistic clamor, within its generalized instability...

A federal district court judge dismissed the $16 million libel suit brought by a professional musician against author Oscar Hijuelos for using her name in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, published in 1989 by Farrar, Straus &...