The Lost Steps - Softcover

Carpentier, Alejo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816638071 ISBN 13: 9780816638079

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Review

An erudite yet absorbing adventure story.A book full of riches—stylistic, sensory, visual. -- New York Times Book Review

Extraordinary. -- The New Yorker

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816638071
• ISBN 13: 9780816638079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296