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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos.It tells the story of two Cuban brothers, musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo. Cesar gets into the music scene in Havana and brings his little brother Nestor after him. The brothers emigrate from Havana to New York in 1949, and eventually form a band, The Mambo Kings, with Cesar as leader and lead singer and Nestor as a first-rate trumpet player. They have success as a live act and even make a few records, culminating in an appearance on I Love Lucy.But all is not well with the brothers. Cesar leads the stereotypical life of a Latin lover, and he does so to great excess, drinking and whoring and abandoning a wife and daughter in Cuba. Nestor, a far more serious sort, has a passionate affair with a woman named Maria, one which ends when she dumps him for another man. Nestor can't get past his lost love, continually mourning for Maria even while marrying a gorgeous, lusty woman named Delores who bears him two children. One night, tragedy strikes, and then nothing is ever the same.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Adapted into 1992 film The Mambo Kings, which was the English-language film debut of Antonio Banderas. | |
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The Alcoholic: Cesar, who drinks and drinks and drinks, until he eventually drinks himself to death. At the beginning when Eugenio pops in to see his uncle, Cesar is falling-down drunk in the middle of the day. | |
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Anachronic Order: The Framing Device device of a drunken, bitter Cesar's memories allows the narrative to flit back and forward in time, as will a man's memories. The first pages of the novel have Cesar thinking about how he and Nestor formed a band in New York, while later chapters go back to Cuba and deal with their pasts on the island. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Nestor spends the rest of his life pining for his lover back in Cuba, who left him for a man who beats her, apparently for no other reason than that her abusive lover is more macho than quiet, introspective Nestor. | |
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