{"product_id":"the-adventures-and-misadventures-of-maqroll-isbn-9780940322912","title":"The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll","description":"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.\"And if you want to change your life - for the better - and have never read the Colombian novelist Alvaro Mutis, you owe it to yourself to get acquainted with \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll.\u003c\/i\u003e A collection of seven novellas that can be read at a run or singly, it features the greatest rainbow-chaser since Quixote, but a lot sexier and ravenous for both learning and love, not to mention fantastical, doomed schemes to make a pile of loot.\" --Simon Schama, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eÁlvaro Mutis\u003c\/b\u003e (1923-2013) was born in Bogotá, Colombia. As a child he  lived in Brussels, returning to Bogotá to complete his education, and  lived in Mexico from 1956 until his death. Mutis was the author of  poetry, short stories, and novels. His first poems were published in  1948, his first short stories in 1978, and his first novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Snow of the Admiral\u003c\/i\u003e—the  initial volume of the Maqroll series—in 1986. He received many literary  awards, including the Prix Medicis in 1989 and the 2002 Neustadt Prize  for Literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancisco Goldman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Night of White Chickens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ordinary Seaman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Husband\u003c\/i\u003e, the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eSay Her Name\u003c\/i\u003e, and one work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Political Murder\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose by  leading contemporary Spanish-language writers, including Garbiel García  Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime  Manrique, Julián Ríos, and, of course, Álvaro Mutis. Her most recent  translation is Vargas Llosa’s \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e and she is currently at work on Miguel de Cervantes’s \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote of La Mancha\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301441687781,"sku":"NP9780940322912","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322912.jpg?v=1767738005","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-adventures-and-misadventures-of-maqroll-isbn-9780940322912","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}