The Lost StepsBy: Alejo Carpentier If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . Wests translations . . . reintroduce English language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction. Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books The best known book by Cubas 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