The lost steps /
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980.
The lost steps / Alejo Carpentier ; translated by Harriet de Onis ; introduction by Timothy Brennan. - 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001. - xiii, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
"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.
0816638071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
00069052
PQ7389.C263 / P313 2001
863/.64
The lost steps / Alejo Carpentier ; translated by Harriet de Onis ; introduction by Timothy Brennan. - 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001. - xiii, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
"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.
0816638071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
00069052
PQ7389.C263 / P313 2001
863/.64