Title: Los pasos perdidos
First published: 1974
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.
Subjects: 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