Translated into twenty languages and published in more than fourteen Spanish editions, Los pasos perdidos, originally published in 1953, is Alejo Carpentier's most heralded novel and a classic in Latin American literarature. 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. Los pasos perdidos describes his