"Translated into twenty languages and published in more than fourteen Spanish editions, The Lost Steps, originally published in 1953, is Alejo Carpentier's most heralded novel. A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization - the upper reaches of a great South American river.
The Lost Steps describes his search, his adventures, and the remarkable decision he makes in a village that seems truly outside history."--BOOK JACKET.
Genres
- Indians of South America
- Fiction
- Fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Spanish fiction
- Translations into English
- Cuban fiction
- Caribbean fiction
- Composers
- Spanish language materials
- Compositores
- Self-realization
- Novela
- Auto-realización
- Fiction, general
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, magical realism
- Fiction, hispanic & latino
- Jungles
- Musicians
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