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
• Flores, Rolando. Mulatto. Born in (does not know the date). Day laborer. Resides at Petén farm, in Tiquisate. Arrested for defamation. He claimed to have had intercourse with Carmen Morales, who at the request of her mother underwent medical examination, confirming her virginity.
• Figueroa Santiago, Boluciano. Born in 1927. Tailor. Booked in 1955 for challenging someone to a duel.
• Gálvez Ravanales, María. Born in (does not know the date). Domestic worker. Single. Booked in 1956 for marijuana trafficking.
• Zamora del Valle, Salvador. Born in 1929. Shoemaker. Booked in 1963 for marijuana trafficking.
• Barreondo Flores, Tomás. Born in 1927 in Guatemala City. Student (minor). Booked in 1937 for marijuana trafficking.
• Urrutia R., Jorge. Born in 1935 in Guatemala City. Classical musician. Booked in 1956 for promoting the use of illegal drugs.
• Arrivillaga P., Delfino Bernardino. Born in 1927. Day laborer in San Martín Jilotepeque. Booked in 1955 for practicing sorcery.
• Barrientos Ortiz, Jorge. Born in 1926 in Guatemala City. Baker. Single. Booked in 1955 for practicing sorcery.
• Ninassi Tacchi, Giuseppe. Italian. Booked in 1955 for being a member of a band of counterfeiters who forged bank notes and checks, captured in the Republic of Honduras in September of 1955.
• Tacaús López, Máximo. Born in 1928. Weaver. Lives alone in Totonicapán. Booked in 1953 because he consumes liquor with other individuals who specialize in undressing drunken night owls.
• Marroquín P., Santiago. Born in 1923 in Santa Catarina Pinula. Farmer. Booked in 1953 for growing marijuana.
• Reyes V., Dionisia. Born in 1931 in El Progreso. Booked for the homicide of her younger brother, Januario Reyes, with a shotgun.
• Guillermo Elezcano, Lorenzo. Spaniard. Born in 1931. Farmer in the Matamoros Valley. Single. Booked in 1960 before being expelled from the country as undesirable.
• Mejía Paz, José Gaspar. Born in 1933 in Totonicapán. Farmer. Booked in 1950 for killing Mr. Antonio Sac Mon, with a stick. Attention: He has a thirty-year-old brother whose name is also Gaspar and who is also in prison.
• Chacón F., Gumercinda. Born in 1930 in the capital city. Domestic worker. Single. Booked for practicing occult sciences.
• Ballesteros Noya, Pancracio. Born in 1927 in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Tailor and artist. Lives with Virginia Castellanos. Has two children. Booked in 1958 for exercising palmistry and fortunetelling, swindling the public. He also exploits ladies of the night.
• Marroquín Alvizures, Marco Antonio. Born in 1933. Office clerk. Booked for publishing obscenities.
• Carrillo Martínez, Jorge Mario. Born in 1929. Accountant. Booked in 1948 for serious insults and for damaging the blossoms of the flowerbed at the National Palace.
• Flores R., Simón. Born in 1952. Couturier. Booked in 1960 for recidivist streetwalking.
• Carrera Mazariegos, Gilberto. Born in 1920. Hatter. Married, with five children. Booked in 1941 for rape.
• Cervantes M., Procopio. (Strong build.) Born in 1928 in Zacapa. Day laborer. Booked in 1951 for the homicide of J. Paulo Pérez, with a hoe.
• Chacón V., Rafael. Born in 1926. Traveling agent. Married. Booked in 1967 for rape and fraud.
• Perdomo O., José. Born in 1934. No job. Booked in 1958 for theft of an old hammer. In 1964 for violation of the health code.