The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Author | : Alvaro Mutis |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780940322912 |
ISBN-13 | : 0940322919 |
Rating | : 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll written by Alvaro Mutis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Álvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.