Hijuelos

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers who immigrate to the United States, settling in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990, and is the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005.