CONTENTS

  1. I

  2. The Smell of Blood and Tar

  3. Hatred in His Veins

  4. As Night Falls

  5. Raw October

  6. Brigand’s Ball in the Brothel of the Lord

  7. Jeanne’s Season of Sorrow

  8. Béatrice Imbert

  9. Women Dismantled

  10. The Siege

  11. Clarisse’s Fury

  12. One Last Time

  13. The Attack

  14. II

  15. Granada, 1974

  16. Poisoned Memory

  17. What Life Remains

  18. Stitches of Memory

  19. Bitter Tongues

  20. Forcing the Dawn

  21. Children of Violence

  22. Night-Blooming Cereus

  23. Love, Relics, and Philosophy

  24. As the Voiceless Cry

  25. Marigot, a Shroud for a Caul

  26. Acknowledgements

  27. Translator’s Notes