by ALVARO MUTIS · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246446316
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«Ilona vient avec la pluie» is the novel by Colombian writer Álvaro Mutis, published by Grasset in paperback (210 pages, in French).
In Panama, Maqroll the Gaviero by chance meets Ilona again, an adventuress with a gift for appearing in the most unexpected places. Old lovers and accomplices, they set up a luxury brothel to escape the port that holds them, in a story where desire, chance and death blur together.
Second instalment of the Maqroll the Gaviero saga. It is the French version of «Ilona llega con la lluvia», originally published in 1988; this edition is from 1992.
For readers of contemporary Latin American fiction and the Maqroll the Gaviero saga.
Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, which revolves around the character of Maqroll el Gaviero. He won the 1991 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He was awarded the 2001 Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the 2002 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
