Table of Contents
1 Escaping the Cage 1
2 Farewell 26
3 The Abduction 35
4 "El Mocho" Cesar 47
5 Sonia's Camp 57
6 The Death of my Father 73
7 Falling into the Abyss 78
8 Taming the Hornets 86
9 The Strains of Communal Life 101
10 Proof of Life 109
11 The Little Wooden House 114
12 Ferney 122
13 Learning to Weave 127
14 Melanie's Seventeenth Birthday 131
15 Resentment and Remission 135
16 The Raid 141
17 The Cage 150
18 Friends Who Come and Go 154
19 Voices from the Outside 159
20 A Visit from Joaquín Gómez 163
21 Second Proof of Life 171
22 The Fortune-Teller 176
23 An Unexpected Encounter 180
24 Giovanni's Camp 184
25 In the Hands of the Shadow 190
26 Sombra's Serenade 196
27 The Barbed Wire 199
28 The Satellite Antenna 206
29 Inside the Prison 209
30 The Arrival of the Americans 214
31 The Big Row 219
32 Roll Call 225
33 Human Misery 229
34 Lucho's Illness 233
35 A Sad Christmas 242
36 The Bickering 250
37 The Chicken Run 256
38 Back in the Prison 262
39 Radio Roundup 268
40 Gloria's Children 278
41 The Petty Things of Hell 281
42 The Dictionary 286
43 My Friend Lucho 289
44 The Child 293
45 The Strike 298
46 Birthdays 303
47 The Big Departure 307
48 Hepatitis 310
49 Guillermo's Frisk 315
50 Unexpected Support 318
51 The Hammock 323
52 Selling Hope 327
53 The Group of Ten 335
54 The Endless March 343
55 The Chains 351
56 The Honeymoon 354
57 At the Gates of Hell 361
58 Descent Into Hell 367
59 The Devil 372
60 Now or Never 377
61 The Escape 383
62 Freedom 395
63 The Choice 407
64 The End of the Dream 411
65 Punishment 416
66 The Retreat 421
67 The Eggs 426
68 Monster 429
69 Lucho's Heart 435
70 Pinchao's Escape 442
71 The Death of Pinchao 450
72 My Friend Marc 456
73 The Ban 463
74 The Letters 469
75 The Separation 475
76 Stroking Death 480
77 Third Proof of Life 489
78 Lucho's Release 495
79 The Disagreement 504
80 The Sacred Heart 511
81 The Trick 514
82 The End of Silence 523
