Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Monthly Newsletter

Join Now

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

Author(s): Alvaro Mutis

Location(s): Peru

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): 2000s

Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in 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 honours 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.

Review this Book

To review this book, please

Log in