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The Lost Steps

โœ Scribed by Alejo Carpentier; Adrian Nathan West; Leonardo Padura

Book ID
112865779
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Weight
539 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143133896

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โœฆ Synopsis

The best-known book by Cubaโ€™s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura
A Penguin Classic
Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the steps of time, he voyages with his lover into a land that feels outside of history, searching not just for music but ultimately for himself, and turning away from modernity toward the very heart of what makes us human.
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The Lost Steps
โœ Carpentier, Alejo ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 1956 ๐Ÿ› Knopf ๐ŸŒ English โš– 253 KB

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

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The Lost Steps
โœ Carpentier, Alejo ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 1956 ๐Ÿ› Knopf ๐ŸŒ English โš– 253 KB

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 area