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Authors: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN-13: 9780140261936, ISBN-10: 0140261931
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: Spanish-language Edition
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--in this "novel of remarkable beauty, intellectual worth, absorbing interest, and genuine originality" ("The Saturday Review", London). 256 pp. 6,000 print.