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A Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling sensation, the Mambo Kings play an encore in this reissue timed for the Warner Brothers big-screen adaptation. Hijuelos captures in vivid and eloquent prose the passion and poignancy of a world where the pulsing and r

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