The Lost Steps

Author(s): Alejo Carpentier

Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, New York City (NYC)

Genre(s): Fiction

A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York, takes a journey with his mistress to the remote upper reaches of a South American river, imagining he is retracing the lost steps of mankind

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