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
• Pineda C., Marta. Born in 1914. No permanent address. Booked in 1945 for exercising clandestine free love. Additional information: unbearable and insulting woman. She lives alone.
• Carranza Ávila, Rosa María. Born in 1920. Domestic worker. Booked in 1944 for committing adultery in her home.
• García Aceituno, Francisca. Born in 1925. Profession: sex worker. Booked in 1940 for selling sweets without a license.
• Santos Aguilar, Perfecta. Born in 1922. Booked in 1943 for having a venereal disease.
• Robles M., Ana Lucrecia. Born in 1932. Without a trade. Booked in 1944 for peddling milk without a license.
• Aceytuno Salvador, Luis Fabio. Born in 1920 in Santa Cruz, El Quiché. Booked in 1939 for cohabiting with a sow.
• Castillo, Bartolo. Born in 1899. Carpenter. Booked in 1933. Accused by Laureano E. Girón of killing a man a long time ago, and for fraud amounting to $14,000 when he was mayor of Azacualpa.
• Echevarría C., Dionisio Mauricio. Born in 1930. Booked in 1958 for complicity in theft of chickens.
• Cabrera, David (son of Rómulo Zamora and Socorro Zamora). Born in 1925. No profession. Booked in 1934 for begging.
• Vásquez V., Mariano. Born in 1923. Farmer. Booked in 1935 for loitering on street corners and for vagrancy.
• Charnaud, José Luis. Born in 1910. Student. Booked in 1935 for document forgery.
• Rabanales Morales, Mario. Born in 1920. Printer. Booked in 1944 for loitering on street corners and for mocking the motherland.
• Mejía Melgar, José. Born in 1920. Shoemaker. Booked in 1945 for pickpocketing at the town festival in Pasaco.
• Espinoza G., Silvia. Born in 1918. Booked in 1936 for assault, scratches and blows to Dolores Aceituno.
• Castillo F., Ricardo. Born in 1914. Florist. Booked in 1941 for recidivist loitering.
• Carrillo Soto, Encarnación. Born in 1921. Farm worker. Booked in 1944 for assault and for being an alleged rustler.
• Quiroa G., Ramiro. Born in 1929 in Escuintla. Office worker.
• Nils Martínez, Otto. Born in 1937. Typographer. Booked in 1952 for vagrancy and for frequenting brothels while underage.
• Galindo Méndez, Francisco. Born in 1915 in Tecpán. Painter. Booked in 1937 for vagrancy and for being incorrigible. In 1938 for disorderly conduct while drunk. In 1944 for abandonment of home (being the father of two children).
• Serrano E., Vicente. Born in 1926. Booked in 1937 for shining boots without a license.
• Lemus J., Carlos. Born in 1920. No profession. Booked in 1938 for theft. In 1942 for illegal gambling. In 1959 for possession of drugs. In 1961 for attempted fraud.
• García Castro, Ángela. Born in 1924. Booked in 1938 for witchcraft practices in house #12, Avenida de la Industria, Zone 9.
• Reyes Campos, Dolores. Born in 1920. Domestic worker. Single. Booked for practicing witchcraft.
• Izil Yaguas, José Juan. Born in (date unknown). Lives alone and has no fixed address. Booked in 1938 for not wearing an apron while selling bread.
• Aguliar C., Pedro. Born in 1922. Booked in 1938 for attempted rape of Bernarda Reyes, twelve years old. In 1946 for theft.
• Caal Mocú, Julia. Born in 1921 in Cobán. Domestic worker. Lives with her mom. Booked in 1939 for harming trees on public walks.
• Petronilo, Moreira. (Black, round face.) Born in 1923 in Lívingston. Laborer. Booked in 1939 for mob fighting.