The adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll / Alvaro Mutis

Maqroll the Gaviero in one 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 deat, and his enduring friedships and unlooked-for love affais make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute