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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Genealogies
Characters
Map of Cuba
Prologue: One Dance
Book One: A Widow’s Grief: An Old Tale
Chapter One
The Rumbas in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
A Serpent’s Spit
The Widow’s Bathwater
Chapter Two
Swimming Without Getting Wet
Invisible Butterflies
Monday Cola
The Sermon of the Seven Kisses
Chapter Three
Berta His Beloved
Nothing More or Less
Guava Milk
The Meat of Castrated Goats
To the Mountain!
Mingo’s Dreams Before Dying
Book Two: How the Dead Come Back: The Tale as Rumba
Chapter Four
The Camarita Flirts with Eternity
Señor Sariel
In the Room Lit with a Red Bulb
Carmen Canastas’s Tangled New Year’s Tale
A Shroud of Papaya Leaves
Chapter Five
Atila and His Resurrected
The Man Who Played His Bones
The Wall & the Prayer-Feathers
Father Jacinto’s Great War of the Americas
Demon or Saint
Chapter Six
Seven Against Him
Two Trials
Arrival
The Minister’s Visit
Book Three: Exile and the Kingdom of Forgetfulness: A Tale in Tongues
Chapter Seven
Wordeaters
The Isle of Pains
An Odd Request
A Repeated Tale
The Devils in the Clock
Not Like a Prodigal
The Tale of the Tub (Prologue)
Dinner for the New Man
High in the Banyan
An Annunciation
Chapter Eight
Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: The Thirty-Mile Swim
The Name of the One That He Once Loved That She Once Loved
Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: At Lot’s Door
Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: The Passion of Comandante Federico Sánchez
Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: The Tale of the Tub
Chapter Nine
Assassination as Birth
Within Alicia’s Bohío, in the Colony of the Newer Man
The Ghost in the Yellow Scarf
The Bakery Administrator’s Daughter
Chapter Ten
Lamentations
Epilogue: Two Dances
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