English translation copyright © 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

All rights reserved

Library of Congress catalog card number: 89-82138

Originally published in Spanish as Constancia y otras novelas para vírgenes by Mondadori España, copyright © 1989 by Carlos Fuentes

Published simultaneously in Canada by Harper & Collins, Toronto

First American edition, 1990

“A Lover from Palestine” by Mahmoud Darweesh, translated by B. M. Bennani, from Splinters of Bone (Greenfield Center, N.Y.: Greenfield Review Press, 1974)

The translator acknowledges Carol Christensen for her superb editorial assistance

eISBN 9781466840102

First eBook edition: February 2013