About the book: 2024 / Alejo Carpentier is a great Cuban writer who has become a world-famous writer. Born in Havana in 1904. His father, a Frenchman by birth, was an architect, and the writer’s mother, Russian, was a relative of the poet Konstantin Balmont. He studied at the University of Havana at the Faculty of Architecture, but chose theory and history of music as his specialty. That is why there is so much music in his works... “Lost Traces” is a travel novel. The path to the jungle for the main character becomes a search for himself, a return to his roots, to his long-forgotten native Spanish language. It tells the story of relationships with three women, intense experiences and reassessment of values. As a result, “Lost Tracks” is a cathartic drama. Will it lead the hero to complete liberation from everything that burdened and distorted his life? Will he find the spiritual freedom that he craves so much? We must look not only to the past, but also to today, and also to the future. The novel “Lost Traces” leads to this idea.».