Chapters (20)
- Cover
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- First Notebook: Modo & Modo
- Second Notebook: Black Binding
- Pages Attached to the Second Notebook
- First Sketchbook: Green Cover with Indian Motifs
- Pages Attached to the First Sketchbook
- Third Notebook: White Cover
- Second Sketchbook: Don Quixote
- Fourth Notebook: Red and Blue Stripes on a White Background
- Pages Attached to the Fourth Notebook
- Third Sketchbook: “Scribe”
- Fourth Sketchbook: Leather Cover, No Branding, No Name
- Fifth Sketchbook: Spanish Binding
- Author’s Note
- Postscript
- Translator’s Acknowledgments
• García Soto, Gonzalo. Born in 1930. Bricklayer’s helper. Booked in 1960 for violating curfew.
• García, Domínguez. Born in 1927. Driver. Booked in 1964 for possession of explosives.
• Gallardo Ordóñez, Mario. Born in 1929. Leatherworker. Booked in 1959 for distributing subversive propaganda.
• Galvez Sandoval, María Virginia. Born in 1932. Teacher without a degree. Booked in 1954 for being affiliated with the Party for Revolutionary Action.
• Gudiel López, María Luisa. Born in 1934. Lives with her parents. Booked in 1956 for weapons possession.
• Hernández Carrillo, Víctor. Born in 1910 in Puerto Barrios. Fisherman. Booked in 1963 for theft of telephone cable.
• Ingenieros Fernández, Pablo. Born in 1950. Auto body repair worker. Booked for desecrating the national flag.
• Lorenzana Marcio, Iván. Born in 1935. Lives with mother and brothers in Zone 1. Draftsman. Booked in 1960 for possession of war supplies.
• Molina López, Efraín. Born in 1932. Typographer. Booked in 1960 for allegedly being responsible for a bomb explosion.
• Méndez Arriaza, Pedro. Born in 1925. Dental technician. Booked in 1961 for subversive activities.
• Nadal Chinchilla, Manuel de Jesús. Born in 1930. Single. Classical musician. Booked in 1955 for being a communist sympathizer.
• Ochoa Santizo, Jorge. Born in 1943. Auto body repair worker. Booked in 1960 for suspicious activity. Lives with his mother, a whore.
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II. COMMON CRIMES
• Velásquez Vásquez, Salvador. Born in 1925. Shoeshine. Booked in 1937 for participating in forbidden games. In 1940 for theft. Set free in 1941.
• Menchú Flavian, Juan. Born in 1924. Merchant. Booked in 1940. Peddler without a license.
• Papandreas Kaleb, Jorge. Born in 1927. Student. Booked in 1942 for disobeying his father. In 1965 for fraud and death threats.
• Rosales Vidal, Francisco. Born in 1925. Typographer. Booked in 1940 for playing soccer on public streets.
• Figueroa García, Florentino. Born in 1925. Shoeshine. Lives alone. Booked in 1945 (Revolutionary Government) for shining shoes without a license.
• Castañeda Contreras, Catalina. Born in 1926. Domestic worker. Booked in 1940 for practicing clandestine prostitution at home and in La Selecta restaurant.
• Mejía de Mendizábal, Julia. Born in 1920. Home address Aurora Alley, #11. Booked in 1940 for attempted murder of her husband, Gabriel Mendizábal.
• Masserli R., Carlos Fernando. Born in 1926. Lives with his parents. Apprentice mechanic. Booked in 1941 for disobeying his father. In 1948 for pederasty.
• Chávez A., Luis. Born in 1921. Lives with his family. Booked in 1940 for vagrancy. In 1954 for theft.
• Herrera Hernández, Petrona. Born in 1925. Lives alone. Domestic worker. Booked in 1941 for stealing a poncho, a sheet, a dress, and a mat from Mr. Justo Espada España.
• Sarceño O., Juan. Born in 1925. Gardener. Lives with his sister. Booked in 1945 (Revolutionary Government) for dancing the tango in the brewery “El Gaucho,” where it is prohibited.
• Funes Coronado, Víctor. Born in 1923 in Champerico. Single. Booked in 1942 for fishing with a cast net during closed season.
• Marroquín Cardona, Vicente. Born in 1926. No profession. Booked in 1939 for complicity in bicycle theft.
• Chávez Coronado, María. Born in 1924 (a minor). Profession: sex worker. She has neither children nor a known male partner. Illiterate. Arrested in August 1939 in Barberena for performing lewd acts in public.