The lost steps
By: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by Harriet de Onis ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.
Edition: 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Description: "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.