So this is the collected novellas about Maqroll the Lookout (a riverboat worker in Colombia) by the writer Alvaro Mutis. I got this either from a Little Free Library or paid a quarter at the public library, I don’t recall which, but it seems fortuitous, as the first novella was really interesting.   The Snow of the Admiral This first novella, and I think the one that starts off the whole linked series involves Maqroll, a riverboat lookout, journaling his thoughts on a particular trip […]