Bibliotrek

Bremen, Germany

The first time Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza, and Norton saw each other was at a contemporary German literature conference held in Bremen in 1994.

Leipzig, Germany

Pelletier and Morini had met before, during the German literature colloquiums held in Leipzig in 1989, when the GDR was in its death throes,

Mannheim, Germany

and then they saw each other again at the German literature symposium held in Mannheim in December of the same year

Zurich, Switzerland

At a modern German literature forum in Zurich in 1990, Pelletier and Morini met Espinoza.

Maastricht, Netherlands

Espinoza saw Pelletier again at a twentieth-century German literature congress held in Maastricht in 1991

Augsburg, Germany

In 1992, Pelletier, Espinoza, and Morini ran into each other again at a German literature seminar in Augsburg.

Paris, France

Only Pelletier and Espinoza attended the next German literature conference, held in Paris in January 1992.

Bologna, Italy

The three met again at a German-language literature colloquium held in Bologna in 1993.

Bremen, Germany

The Bremen German literature conference was highly eventful.

Göttingen, Germany

The audience, consisting mostly of university students who had traveled from Göttingen by train or in vans, was also won over by Pelletier’s fiery and uncompromising interpretations.

Then they talked about future conferences, especially a strange one at the University of Minnesota, supposedly to be attended by five hundred professors, translators, and German literature specialists.

London, England

Liz Norton sometimes shared her London flat with a globe-trotting brother who worked for an NGO.

Turin, Italy

Maybe the weather had been bad in Turin, maybe Morini had dreamed who knows what kind of horrible dream the night before.

Frisian town, north of Wilhelmshaven

met Archimboldi while he was cultural promoter for a Frisian town, north of Wilhelmshaven, facing the Black Sea coast and the East Frisian islands

Frankfurt

left these places and went home (which was sometimes just a room in Frankfurt or Cologne)

Cologne

left these places and went home (which was sometimes just a room in Frankfurt or Cologne)

Hamburg

the first, remembered the Swabian, had been published in Hamburg that year

Buenos Aires

had even, on one of her voyages, an unforgettable ocean crossing, gone as far as Buenos Aires, in 1927 or 1928

Hamburg, Germany

The next morning, Espinoza and Pelletier called at the publisher’s apartment, on the third floor of an old building in Hamburg’s upper town.

Sankt Pauli

as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi could never fill their lives.

Mrs. Bubis’s house

in Sankt Pauli and later at Mrs. Bubis’s house, hung with photographs of the late Mr. Bubis and his writers, Pelletier and Espinoza understood that what they wanted to make was love, not war.

Madrid

He imagined her and then he imagined himself, side by side, sharing an apartment in Madrid, going to the supermarket, both of them working in the German department.

London

Three days after the meeting with Archimboldi’s publisher, he showed up in London unannounced, and after telling Liz Norton the latest news, he invited her to dinner at a restaurant in Hammersmith.

Hammersmith

he invited her to dinner at a restaurant in Hammersmith that a colleague in the Russian department had recommended.

Kobe

The story was about a boy spending his holidays in Kobe who wanted to go out to play with friends at the same time that his favorite TV show was on.

Tokyo

The problem was that the boy was from Tokyo and in Tokyo his show was on Channel 34, whereas in Kobe, Channel 34 is blank, a channel on which all you see is snow.

Paris

Pelletier talked about his colleagues in the German department, about a young Swiss poet and professor who was badgering him for a scholarship, about the sky in Paris (shades of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Banville), about the cars at dusk, their lights already on, heading home.

Lavapiés, Madrid

Espinoza talked about his library, where he arranged his books in the strictest solitude, about the distant drums that he sometimes heard coming from a neighboring apartment that seemed to be home to a group of African musicians, about the neighborhoods of Madrid, Lavapiés, Malasaña, and about the area around the Gran Vía, where you could go for a walk at any time of night.

Malasaña, Madrid

Espinoza talked about his library, where he arranged his books in the strictest solitude, about the distant drums that he sometimes heard coming from a neighboring apartment that seemed to be home to a group of African musicians, about the neighborhoods of Madrid, Lavapiés, Malasaña, and about the area around the Gran Vía, where you could go for a walk at any time of night.

Gran Vía, Madrid

Espinoza talked about his library, where he arranged his books in the strictest solitude, about the distant drums that he sometimes heard coming from a neighboring apartment that seemed to be home to a group of African musicians, about the neighborhoods of Madrid, Lavapiés, Malasaña, and about the area around the Gran Vía, where you could go for a walk at any time of night.

Madrid, Spain

One Saturday Espinoza told her that she must come to Madrid, she would be his guest, Madrid at this time of year was the most beautiful city in the world, and there was a Bacon retrospective on, too, which wasn’t to be missed.

London, England

When Liz Norton flew back to London, Espinoza was left even more nervous than he’d been during her two days in Madrid.

El Escorial, Spain

Espinoza drove her to El Escorial and then they went to a flamenco show.

Salonika, Greece

Then they started to talk—and laughed quite a bit—about a strange conference that had just been held in Salonika, to which only Morini had been invited.

Hyde Park, London

he decided to go out and went as far as Hyde Park, where he wandered aimlessly

Italian Gardens, Hyde Park, London

he found himself outside the Italian Gardens, or so they were called, although nothing about them struck him as Italian

Palermo, Italy

The stranger pointed one of his thick fingers at the book, published by Sellerio, in Palermo

Wapping, London

A year later he had a show at the Emma Waterson gallery, an alternative space in Wapping, and it was an enormous success.

Lausanne or Montreux, Switzerland

Shortly thereafter, the painter went mad and his wife (he was married by then) had no choice but to send him to a convalescent home on the outskirts of Lausanne or Montreux.

Germany

the article consisted of a painstaking and often frustrating investigation that began in Germany

France

continued through France

Switzerland

continued through France, Switzerland

Italy

continued through France, Switzerland, Italy

Greece

continued through France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece

Palermo, Italy

ended at a travel agency in Palermo, where it seemed Archimboldi had bought a plane ticket to Morocco

Morocco

ended at a travel agency in Palermo, where it seemed Archimboldi had bought a plane ticket to Morocco

Rabat, Morocco

the only part of the Serb’s paper that was worth anything was the ticket in the name of Benno von Archimboldi, bought a week before the Italian plane was scheduled to depart for Rabat

Atlas Mountains, Morocco

From now on we can imagine him lost in a cave in the Atlas Mountains, she said

United States

Archimboldi may have decided not to take the trip, or to travel somewhere else instead, say the United States

Ireland

To visit Ireland or New York

New York

To visit Ireland or New York

London, England

She summoned them both to London

Madrid, Spain

Pelletier imagined Espinoza’s plane engulfed in flames, crashing onto a runway at the Madrid airport

London, England

although Norton’s behavior was perfectly normal, as if she had run into the two of them by chance and hadn’t expressly asked them to come to London.

Cromwell Road, London, England

As she drove along Cromwell Road, Norton said that maybe that night it would make most sense for her to sleep with both of them.

Kensington Gardens, London, England

Then they went to watch the sun set near the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens.

Serpentine Gallery, London, England

Couples or elegantly dressed single women passed briskly, toward the Serpentine Gallery or the Albert Memorial, and in the opposite direction men with crumpled newspapers or mothers pushing baby carriages headed toward Bayswater Road.

Albert Memorial, London, England

Couples or elegantly dressed single women passed briskly, toward the Serpentine Gallery or the Albert Memorial, and in the opposite direction men with crumpled newspapers or mothers pushing baby carriages headed toward Bayswater Road.

Bayswater Road, London, England

Couples or elegantly dressed single women passed briskly, toward the Serpentine Gallery or the Albert Memorial, and in the opposite direction men with crumpled newspapers or mothers pushing baby carriages headed toward Bayswater Road.

Madrid, Spain

On the plane back to Madrid, Espinoza, unlike Pelletier, thought about the book he believed to be Archimboldi’s last novel...

Berlin, Germany

Then came an assembly of Germanists in Berlin, a twentieth-century German literature congress in Stuttgart...

Stuttgart, Germany

Then came an assembly of Germanists in Berlin, a twentieth-century German literature congress in Stuttgart...

Hamburg, Germany

Only Espinoza and Morini attended the symposium, and since they were in Hamburg anyway and killing time they went to visit the Bubis publishing house...

Mainz, Germany

Then came an assembly of Germanists in Berlin, a twentieth-century German literature congress in Stuttgart, a symposium on German literature in Hamburg, and a conference on the future of German literature in Mainz.

Moscow, Russia

...but they couldn’t see Mrs. Bubis, for whom they’d brought a bouquet of roses, since she was on a trip to Moscow.

London, England

One day, when more than three months had gone by since their visit to Norton, one of them called the other and suggested a weekend in London.

London, England

After that night, the plane trips to London began again.

Foley Street, London, England

a small, uncomfortable hotel on Foley Street, near the Middlesex Hospital.

Middlesex Hospital, London, England

a small, uncomfortable hotel on Foley Street, near the Middlesex Hospital.

Paris, France

One night, while talking to Norton on the phone from Paris or Madrid, one of them brought the subject up.

Madrid, Spain

One night, while talking to Norton on the phone from Paris or Madrid, one of them brought the subject up.

Bournemouth, England

He wasn’t from London but a town near Bournemouth.

Oxford, England

He had studied at Oxford for a year, and then, incomprehensibly to Espinoza and Pelletier, had moved to London and finished his studies there.

Bologna, Italy

During the next conference they attended ('Reflecting the Twentieth Century: The Work of Benno von Archimboldi,' a two-day event in Bologna packed with young Italian Archimboldians and a crop of Archimboldian neostructuralists from all over Europe), they decided to tell Morini everything that had happened to them in the last few months and all the fears they harbored concerning Norton and Pritchard.

Bologna, Italy

Pelletier’s and Espinoza’s absolute boredom regarding everything said there about Archimboldi or their negligent disregard for the gaze of others, as if the two were so much cannibal fodder, a disregard lost on the young conferencegoers, those eager and insatiable cannibals, their thirtysomething faces bloated with success, their expressions shifting from boredom to madness, their coded stutterings speaking only two words: love me, or maybe two words and a phrase: love me, let me love you, though obviously no one understood.

London, England

So Pelletier and Espinoza, who drifted through Bologna like two ghosts, asked Norton on their next visit to London, almost panting, as if they’d been running or jogging (without pause, in dreams or in reality), whether she, their beloved Liz who hadn’t been able to go to Bologna, loved or lusted after Pritchard.

Harmsworth Park, London, England

And then he said something in his language and the cab passed Harmsworth Park and the Imperial War Musuem, heading along Brook Drive and then Austral Street and then Geraldine Street, driving around the park, an unnecessary maneuver no matter how you looked at it.

Imperial War Museum, London, England

And then he said something in his language and the cab passed Harmsworth Park and the Imperial War Musuem, heading along Brook Drive and then Austral Street and then Geraldine Street, driving around the park, an unnecessary maneuver no matter how you looked at it.

St. George’s Road

A few cars were passing by on St. George’s Road, but the three of them were invisible to anyone traveling in a vehicle at that hour.

Garden Row

A group of people came from Garden Row singing a song.

Thames

On the other side of the Thames, on a little street near Old Marylebone, they left the cab and walked for a while.

Old Marylebone

On the other side of the Thames, on a little street near Old Marylebone, they left the cab and walked for a while.

Middlesex Hospital

For a few minutes they entertained themselves by watching the ambulances coming in and out of Middlesex Hospital.

Charing Cross

They went for a walk, their minds calmer, along Charing Cross toward the Strand.

Strand

They went for a walk, their minds calmer, along Charing Cross toward the Strand.

Madrid

When he got back to Madrid, Espinoza had a minor breakdown.

Auguste Demarre lunatic asylum, Switzerland

Pelletier’s story then began with the three Archimboldians contemplating the iron gate that rose in welcome to the Auguste Demarre lunatic asylum.

Montreux, Switzerland

At the foot of the mountains, he thought he saw a city. Maybe it’s Montreux, he said to himself.

Montreux

The car took them back to Montreux, where they spent the night at the Hotel Helvetia.

Hotel Helvetia

The car took them back to Montreux, where they spent the night at the Hotel Helvetia.

Turin

From the Geneva airport they called Morini’s apartment in Turin.

Geneva

Pelletier and Espinoza took the train to Geneva.

Madrid

As soon as he got to Madrid Espinoza called Pelletier.

University of Turin

On the fourth day, Pelletier called the University of Turin directly.

Mexico City, Mexico

El Cerdo, after a brief conversation in German, got dressed and set off in his car to a hotel near the Mexico City airport.

Plaza Garibaldi, Mexico City, Mexico

El Cerdo took him to Plaza Garibaldi.

Zócalo, Mexico City

they went for a walk around the Zócalo, visiting the plaza and the Aztec ruins springing like lilacs from wasteland

Plaza Santo Domingo, Mexico City

as he and the German walked the streets around the Zócalo, toward the Plaza Santo Domingo, where, during the day, under the arches, scribes with their typewriters set up shop

Angel on Reforma, Mexico City

Then they went to see the Angel on Reforma, but that night the Angel was dark

Mexico City

The old man was flying from Mexico City to Hermosillo.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

The old man was flying from Mexico City to Hermosillo.

Santa Teresa, Sonora, Mexico

“No, Santa Teresa,” said the old man. “Do you know it?”

Milan, Italy

She traveled a lot, Milan, Paris, Frankfurt.

Paris, France

She traveled a lot, Milan, Paris, Frankfurt.

Frankfurt, Germany

She traveled a lot, Milan, Paris, Frankfurt.

Moscow, Russia

Or at the German embassy in Moscow, in a Chanel suit, with two Russian poets in her retinue

Sonora, Mexico

Morini would be satisfied if he could see the pictures they took of him in Sonora.

Greece

I think Archimboldi lives in Greece, said Dieter Hellfeld

Samoa

When he got to Samoa, after many hardships, he didn’t visit Stevenson’s grave.

Paris, France

Pelletier, Espinoza, and Norton traveled from Paris to Mexico City, where El Cerdo was waiting.

Mexico City, Mexico

Pelletier, Espinoza, and Norton traveled from Paris to Mexico City, where El Cerdo was waiting.

Hermosillo, Mexico

They spent the night in a hotel, and the next morning they flew to Hermosillo.

Hermosillo

The next morning they flew to Hermosillo and from the airport they called the rector of the University of Santa Teresa, then they rented a car and set off toward the border.

Sonora

As they left the airport, the three of them noticed how bright it was in Sonora. It was as if the light were buried in the Pacific Ocean, producing an enormous curvature of space.

Santa Teresa

They drove into Santa Teresa from the south and the city looked to them like an enormous camp of gypsies or refugees ready to pick up and move at the slightest prompting.

Hotel México

They took three rooms on the fourth floor of the Hotel México.

University of Santa Teresa

Then El Cerdo pulled out his electronic organizer and they copied the phone number of the rector at the University of Santa Teresa into their address books.

Madrid, Spain

She started to talk to me about moving to Madrid.

Barcelona

books he had chosen in Barcelona before he left.

Arizona

When Pelletier, to change the subject, talked about the light in Sonora, the rector waxed poetic about sunsets in the desert and mentioned a few painters, with names they didn’t recognize, who had come to live in Sonora or nearby Arizona.

Hyde Park

All she saw was an empty wheelchair and behind it an enormous, impenetrable forest, so dark green it was almost black, which it took her a while to recognize as Hyde Park.

Santiago, Chile

It was a public library, augmented by the collection of a German man who had accumulated many books in German and who had donated them before he died to the municipality of Ñuñoa, in Santiago.

Argentina

When the critics, much more kindly disposed toward him now, asked what he was doing in Argentina in 1974, Amalfitano looked at them and then at his margarita and said, as if he had repeated it many times, that in 1974 he was in Argentina because of the coup in Chile, which had obliged him to choose the path of exile.

Santa Teresa

There was no German consulate in Santa Teresa, so any steps in that direction could be ruled out from the start.

Santa Teresa

As they finished breakfast they speculated again about the motives that might have compelled Archimboldi to travel to Santa Teresa.

Turin, Italy

In his message Morini talked about the weather, as if he had nothing better to say, about the slanting rain that had begun to fall on Turin at eight and hadn’t stopped until one in the morning.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

The next day they went to see the crafts market, which had been meant as a trading post for everyone living near Santa Teresa.

Nogales, Mexico

Cattlemen came from Nogales and Vicente Guerrero and horse dealers from Agua Prieta and Cananea.

Vicente Guerrero, Mexico

Cattlemen came from Nogales and Vicente Guerrero and horse dealers from Agua Prieta and Cananea.

Agua Prieta, Mexico

Cattlemen came from Nogales and Vicente Guerrero and horse dealers from Agua Prieta and Cananea.

Cananea, Mexico

Cattlemen came from Nogales and Vicente Guerrero and horse dealers from Agua Prieta and Cananea.

Phoenix, USA

Now the market was kept up solely for American tourists from Phoenix, who arrived by bus or in caravans of three or four cars and left the city before nightfall.

Mexico City, Mexico

At each place they looked through the papers dating from a month before Almendro saw Archimboldi in Mexico City to the previous day.

Hermosillo, Mexico

The return to the hotel where Archimboldi collected his suitcase, the mostly silent trip to the airport, and then Archimboldi’s departure for Hermosillo, after which he never saw him again.

Paris, France

another professor from the university who had written his thesis in Paris about a Mexican who wrote in French

Santa Teresa, Mexico

a lamb barbecue at a ranch near Santa Teresa, a barbecue that was predicted to be massive

Sierra Madre, Mexico

to visit the foothills of the Sierra Madre

Arizona, USA

they gazed past it at the Arizona desert, this time getting out of the car

Santa Teresa–Caborca highway, Mexico

ate tacos at a motel on the Santa Teresa–Caborca highway, at outdoor tables with a view

Tucson, United States

The flight Norton had found was out of Tucson, and despite her protests—she’d been planning to take a taxi—they decided to drive her to the airport.

Santa Teresa

Then Norton got up to go to bed and Espinoza suggested they spend their last night in Santa Teresa together.

Sonoita

But the dirt road ended in Sonoita and from there they took Route 83 to Interstate 10, which brought them straight to Tucson.

Nogales

To get back they took Interstate 19 to Nogales, although they turned off a little after Rio Rico and followed the border on the Arizona side, to Lochiel, where they entered Mexico again.

Lochiel

To get back they took Interstate 19 to Nogales, although they turned off a little after Rio Rico and followed the border on the Arizona side, to Lochiel, where they entered Mexico again.

Santa Teresa

In Santa Teresa, in that horrible city, said Norton’s letter, I thought about Jimmy

London, England

When I reached London after an exhausting trip, said Norton in her letter, I started to think about Jimmy Crawford

Mexico

More than once I felt the urge to rush to the airport and catch the first plane to Mexico.

Santa Teresa

The rest of the morning Espinoza would spend at an outdoor café in the neighborhood, the only neighborhood in Santa Teresa he liked, besides Rebeca’s, reading the local papers and drinking coffee and smoking.

Turin

"Yes," said Morini’s voice from Turin. "He died a few months ago."

Santa Teresa

And yet," said Pelletier, "I'm sure Archimboldi is here, in Santa Teresa.

Pamplona

A week later Amalfitano got a letter from Lola, postmarked Pamplona.

Lérida

For two days, said Lola, we were working at a roadside restaurant in Lérida, for a man who also owned an apple orchard.

Zaragoza

In Zaragoza they stayed with an old friend of Imma’s from university.

Mondragón asylum

Then Lola described again the night when she’d made love with the poet, who lay in majestic and semisecret repose in the Mondragón asylum.

Barcelona, Spain

He lived in Barcelona, with a gay philosopher, and they threw parties together once a week or once every two weeks.

Spain

I don’t know whether you’d come to Spain yet or whether you were in Italy or France or some filthy Latin American hole.

Las Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain

At that hour only the Drugstore on Las Ramblas was open and we headed there without a word.

Barcelona, Spain

Sometimes someone, an older woman, a man in a tie, a long-faced adolescent, would open a window and look out at the grid of Barcelona at dusk.

San Sebastián, Spain

Amalfitano received the next letter from San Sebastián.

Mondragón, Spain

In it, Lola told him that she’d gone with Imma to the asylum at Mondragón to visit the poet, who lived there, raving and demented, and that the guards, priests disguised as security guards, wouldn’t let them in.

San Sebastián, Spain

In San Sebastián they had plans to stay with a friend of Imma’s, a Basque girl named Edurne, who had been an ETA commando and had given up the armed struggle when democracy came, and who didn’t want them in her house for more than one night, saying she had lots to do and her husband didn’t like unexpected guests.

San Sebastián, Spain

Edurne herself was very relaxed. She had a little boy (though Lola and Imma never saw him, because Jon always found a reason to keep them out of his room) and she worked almost full-time as a street educator, with junkie families and the street people who huddled on the steps of the cathedral of San Sebastián and only wanted to be left alone, as Edurne explained, laughing, as if she’d just told a joke that only Imma understood, because neither Lola nor Jon laughed.

Mondragón, Spain

They found a cheap boardinghouse that Edurne had told them about and they hitchhiked back to Mondragón.

Mondragón, Spain

They weren’t allowed into the asylum this time either, but they settled for studying it from the outside, noting and committing to memory all the dirt and gravel roads they could see, the gray walls, the rises and curves of the land, the walks taken by the inmates and their caretakers, whom they watched from a distance, the curtains of trees following one after the other at unpredictable intervals or in a pattern they didn’t understand, and the brush where they thought they saw flies, by which they deduced that some of the inmates and maybe even a worker or two urinated there in the dark or as night fell.

Barcelona, Spain

Not me, said Imma, and she turned the page. I knew him, said Lola, we were friends a few years ago, in Barcelona, when he lived in Barcelona.

Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France

We’ll cross into France over the mountains, like pilgrims. We’ll make our way to Saint-Jean-de-Luz and take the train to Paris, traveling through the countryside, which is the prettiest in the world at this time of year.

Paris, France

We’ll cross into France over the mountains, like pilgrims. We’ll make our way to Saint-Jean-de-Luz and take the train to Paris, traveling through the countryside, which is the prettiest in the world at this time of year.

Irún, Spain

Then, when I’m six months pregnant, we’ll go back to Spain, though this time we won’t cross over at Irún but at La Jonquera or Port Bou, into Catalan country.

La Jonquera, Spain

Then, when I’m six months pregnant, we’ll go back to Spain, though this time we won’t cross over at Irún but at La Jonquera or Port Bou, into Catalan country.

Port Bou, Spain

Then, when I’m six months pregnant, we’ll go back to Spain, though this time we won’t cross over at Irún but at La Jonquera or Port Bou, into Catalan country.

Mondragón, Spain

Sometimes like shooting a Zen arrow with a Zen bow into a Zen pavilion. Ah, I understand, said Lola. You, read a poem, said the poet. Imma looked at him and raised the book a little higher, as if she was trying to hide behind it. Which poem? Whichever one you like best, said the poet. I like them all, said Imma. So read one, said the poet. When Imma had finished reading a poem about a labyrinth and Ariadne lost in the labyrinth and a young Spaniard who lived in a Paris garret, the poet asked if they had any chocolate. No, said Lola. We don’t smoke these days, said Imma, we’re focusing all our efforts on getting you out of here. The poet smiled. I didn’t mean that kind of chocolate, he said, I meant the other kind, the kind made with cocoa and milk and sugar. Oh, I see, said Lola, and they both were forced to admit they hadn’t brought anything like that either. They remembered that they had cheese sandwiches in their bags, wrapped in napkins and aluminum foil, and they offered them to him, but the poet seemed not to hear. Before it began to get dark, a flock of big blackbirds flew over the park, vanishing northward. A doctor approached along the gravel path, his white robe flapping in the evening breeze. When he reached them he asked the poet how he felt, calling him by his first name as if they’d been friends since adolescence. The poet gave him a blank look, and, calling him by his first name too, said he was a little tired. The doctor, whose name was Gorka and who couldn’t have been more than thirty, sat down beside him and put a hand on his forehead, then took his pulse. You’re doing fucking great, man, he said. And how are the ladies? he asked, with a smile full of health and cheer. Imma didn’t answer. Lola had the sense that Imma was dying behind her book. Just fine, she said, it’s been a while since we saw each other and we’re having a wonderful time. So you knew each other already? asked the doctor. Not me, said Imma, and she turned the page. I knew him, said Lola, we were friends a few years ago, in Barcelona, when he lived in Barcelona. In fact, she said, looking up at the last blackbirds, the stragglers, taking flight just as someone turned on the park lights from a hidden switch in the asylum, we were more than friends. How interesting, said Gorka, his eyes on the birds, which at that time of day and in the artificial light had a burnished glow. What year was that? asked the doctor. It was 1979 or 1978, I can’t remember now, said Lola in a faint voice. I hope you won’t think I’m indiscreet, said the doctor, but I’m writing a biography of our friend and the more information I can gather on his life, the better, wouldn’t you say? Someday he’ll leave here, said Gorka, smoothing his eyebrows, someday the Spanish public will have to recognize him as one of the greats, I don’t mean they’ll give him a prize, hardly, no Príncipe de Asturias or Cervantes for him, let alone a seat in the Academy, literary careers in Spain are for social climbers, operators, and ass kissers, if you’ll pardon the expression. But someday he’ll leave here. There’s no question about that. Someday I’ll leave, too. And so will my patients and my colleagues’ patients. Someday all of us will finally leave Mondragón, and this noble institution, ecclesiastical in origin, charitable in aim, will stand abandoned. Then my biography will be of interest and I’ll be able to publish it, but in the meantime, as you can imagine, it’s my duty to collect information, dates, names, confirm stories, some in questionable taste, even damaging, others more picturesque, stories that revolve around a chaotic center of gravity, which is our friend here, or what he’s willing to reveal, the ordered self he presents, ordered verbally, I mean, according to a strategy I think I understand, although its purpose is a mystery to me, an order concealing a verbal disorder that would shake us to the core if ever we were to experience it, even as spectators of a staged performance.

Madrid, Spain

this time heading south, to Madrid, where she had a brother who had done well for himself under the democracy and whom she planned to ask for a loan.

San Sebastián, Spain

she described her daily life in San Sebastián and the area around the asylum, which she visited every day.

Mondragón cemetery

Once one of the drivers who picked her up on the highway asked if she wanted to see the Mondragón cemetery and she said she did.

Sonora, Mexico

the ghostly lights that are famously visible without binoculars or telescope in northern Sonora and southern Arizona.

Arizona, USA

the ghostly lights that are famously visible without binoculars or telescope in northern Sonora and southern Arizona.

Mondragón

then went out to the highway to hitchhike to Mondragón.

San Sebastián, Spain

He bought her a skirt at a little street fair and he bought her some brand-name jeans at a store in downtown San Sebastián.

La Concha, San Sebastián, Spain

Another time he found her sitting on a seafront bench at La Concha, at an hour when the only people out walking were two opposite types: those running out of time and those with time to burn.

Bayonne, France

She was in Bayonne for a while. She left for Landes. She returned to Bayonne.

Pau, France

She was in Pau and in Lourdes.

Lourdes, France

She was in Pau and in Lourdes.

Paris, France

The letter was short and came from Paris. In it Lola told him that she had a job cleaning big office buildings.

Las Ramblas

At night she slept in a boardinghouse near Las Ramblas, where foreign workers crammed into tiny rooms.

Sant Cugat, Spain

In those days, Amalfitano was living in Sant Cugat and teaching philosophy classes at Barcelona’s Universidad Autónoma, not far away.

Barcelona, Spain

In those days, Amalfitano was living in Sant Cugat and teaching philosophy classes at Barcelona’s Universidad Autónoma, not far away.

France

Lola refused, saying French doctors had always been better than Spanish doctors, and she took some papers out of her bag that stated in no uncertain terms and in French that she had AIDS.

Greece

When they got there Lola was sitting in front of the TV, which was on but with the sound off, reading her book on Greece.

University of Santa Teresa

The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain.

Santa Teresa

but to the heat that swept Santa Teresa in the afternoons, the dry, dusty heat of a bitter sun, inescapable unless you lived in a new apartment with air-conditioning, which Amalfitano didn’t.

La Coruña

The book was Rafael Dieste’s Testamento geométrico, published by Ediciones del Castro in La Coruña, in 1975

Santiago de Compostela

Obviously, it was Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia.

Barcelona, Spain

He believed (or liked to think he believed) that when a person was in Barcelona, the people living and present in Buenos Aires and Mexico City didn’t exist.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

He believed (or liked to think he believed) that when a person was in Barcelona, the people living and present in Buenos Aires and Mexico City didn’t exist.

Mexico City, Mexico

He believed (or liked to think he believed) that when a person was in Barcelona, the people living and present in Buenos Aires and Mexico City didn’t exist.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

And although Amalfitano later found more information on the life and works of Rafael Dieste at the University of Santa Teresa library...

Sonora, Mexico

to this populous city that stood in defiance of the desert on the border of Sonora and Arizona.

Arizona, USA

to this populous city that stood in defiance of the desert on the border of Sonora and Arizona.

Tijuana, Mexico

but although it was still daytime and the sun was still shining in the west, toward Tijuana, he couldn’t see it.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

All that exists, or remains, of Duchamp’s stay in Buenos Aires is a readymade.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

Another morning he thought that any work he did to make the yard nicer would ultimately be pointless, since he didn’t plan to stay long in Santa Teresa.

Naples, Italy

His own father, Amalfitano’s grandfather, was born in Naples.

Chillán, Chile

Luis Vicentini, a powerfully built Italian from Chillán who was defeated by the sad fate of being born in Chile.

United States

Estanislao Loayza, El Tani, who was robbed of the world title in the United States in the most ridiculous way, when the referee stepped on his foot in the first round and El Tani fractured his ankle.

Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico

The inside was dark, except for the light that came in through a kind of skylight, and the walls were covered in ex-votos written by travelers and Indians in the nineteenth century who had risked the pass between Chihuahua and Sonora.

Santa Teresa

Amalfitano’s first few days in Santa Teresa and at the University of Santa Teresa were miserable, although Amalfitano was only half aware of the fact.

Hermosillo

A faculty colleague, a young professor from Hermosillo who had only recently finished his degree, asked what had made him choose the University of Santa Teresa over the University of Barcelona.

Barcelona

A faculty colleague, a young professor from Hermosillo who had only recently finished his degree, asked what had made him choose the University of Santa Teresa over the University of Barcelona.

Buenos Aires

He had met Professor Silvia Pérez in Buenos Aires and then they had seen each other twice in Barcelona.

Colonia Lindavista

The house was in Colonia Lindavista, an upper-middle-class neighborhood of one- and two-story houses with yards.

Avenida Madero

all he saw was a dog heading calmly toward Avenida Madero, to the bus stop.

Atacama

That hockey rink the size of Atacama where the players never saw a member of the opposing team and only every so often saw a member of their own.

Santa Teresa

At that same moment the Santa Teresa police found the body of another teenage girl, half buried in a vacant lot in one of the neighborhoods on the edge of the city

Barcelona

The water tasted different from the water in Barcelona.

Sonora

The water in Santa Teresa seemed much denser, as if it weren’t filtered at all but came loaded with minerals, tasting of earth. In the first few days he had acquired the habit, which he shared with Rosa, of brushing his teeth twice as often as he had in Barcelona, because it seemed to him that his teeth were turning brown, as if they were being covered in a thin film of some substance from the underground rivers of Sonora.

Santa Teresa, Sonora

Are we in Santa Teresa? asked the voice. Is this city part of the state of Sonora?

Santa Teresa

He imagined himself locked up in an asylum in Santa Teresa or Hermosillo with Professor Pérez as his only occasional visitor...

Hermosillo

He imagined himself locked up in an asylum in Santa Teresa or Hermosillo with Professor Pérez as his only occasional visitor...

Barcelona

To start what? That was a question he preferred not to answer. He imagined himself locked up in an asylum in Santa Teresa or Hermosillo with Professor Pérez as his only occasional visitor, and every so often receiving letters from Rosa in Barcelona, where she would be working or finishing her studies...

Italy

She would meet a Catalan boy, responsible and affectionate, who would fall in love with her and respect her and take care of her and be nice to her and with whom Rosa would end up living and going to the movies at night and traveling to Italy or Greece in July or August...

Greece

She would meet a Catalan boy, responsible and affectionate, who would fall in love with her and respect her and take care of her and be nice to her and with whom Rosa would end up living and going to the movies at night and traveling to Italy or Greece in July or August...

Chile

Of course, he said to himself, he didn’t believe in ghosts or spirits, although during his childhood in the south of Chile people talked about the mechona who waited for riders on a tree branch...

Cordillera de la Costa

Lesser demons that roamed between the Cordillera de la Costa and the Andes, but in which he didn’t believe...

Andes

Lesser demons that roamed between the Cordillera de la Costa and the Andes, but in which he didn’t believe...

Mexico City

Professor Pérez said she had three feminists from Mexico City staying at her house, and that night she planned to have a dinner for them.

Avenida Madero

He was walking along Avenida Madero, and the four-story buildings had given way to ranch houses.

Colonia Lindavista

They headed toward Colonia Lindavista, but before they got there the dean’s son suggested they get a drink.

Greektown, Detroit

He had a cup of coffee and toast for breakfast at a Greektown diner.

Santa Teresa

Near another open field they saw the old railroad line that had once connected Santa Teresa to Ures and Hermosillo.

Ures

Near another open field they saw the old railroad line that had once connected Santa Teresa to Ures and Hermosillo.

Hermosillo

Near another open field they saw the old railroad line that had once connected Santa Teresa to Ures and Hermosillo.

Los Zancudos

The place was called Los Zancudos and it was a rectangle three hundred feet long by one hundred feet wide.

Santiago de Chile

He remembered a very short book, scarcely one hundred pages long, by a certain Lonko Kilapán, published in Santiago de Chile in 1978, that an old friend, a wiseass of long standing, had sent him while he was living in Europe.

Puerto Saavedra

And that was the end of the prologue, by José R. Pichiñual, Cacique of Puerto Saavedra.

Temuco

These pieces were distributed among the Araucanian museums of Temuco, the future Museo Abate Molina of Villa Alegre, and the Museo Araucano of Santiago, which will soon be open to the public.

Villa Alegre

These pieces were distributed among the Araucanian museums of Temuco, the future Museo Abate Molina of Villa Alegre, and the Museo Araucano of Santiago, which will soon be open to the public.

Santiago

These pieces were distributed among the Araucanian museums of Temuco, the future Museo Abate Molina of Villa Alegre, and the Museo Araucano of Santiago, which will soon be open to the public.

Bologna, Italy

He was a professor at the University of Bologna, where his statue presides over the entrance to the Pantheon of the Distinguished Sons of Italy, between the statues of Copernicus and Galileo.

Barcelona, Spain

The mention of Trakl made Amalfitano think, as he went through the motions of teaching a class, about a drugstore near where he lived in Barcelona, a place he used to go when he needed medicine for Rosa.

Rebecca Holmes Park

They left in the rental car for Rebecca Holmes Park, some twenty blocks away.

Temple A. Hoffman Memorial Playground

Rebecca Holmes Park was big and in the middle, surrounded by a half-collapsed fence, was a playground called Temple A. Hoffman Memorial Playground, where they didn’t see any children playing.

Chicago

There was something about a woman whose legs and arms and tongue had been amputated. There was something about the Chicago sewers and the sanitation boss or a city worker called Sebastian D’Onofrio, and then came a refrain, repeating Chi-Chi-Chi-Chicago.

California, USA

Seaman began by talking about his childhood in California. He said that for those who hadn’t been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island.

Detroit, USA

And here he recited a list of statistics on fatal car accidents in a county of Detroit and a county of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, USA

And here he recited a list of statistics on fatal car accidents in a county of Detroit and a county of Los Angeles.

Santa Cruz, California, USA

As you all know, he said, Marius Newell was killed. A black man like you and like me killed him one night in Santa Cruz, California.

Soledad Prison, USA

He always said he would call his first son Frank, after a friend who lost his life in Soledad Prison.

Big Sur, California, USA

I see him on the beach in California. A beach in Big Sur, maybe, or in Monterey north of Fisherman’s Wharf, up Highway 1.

Monterey, California, USA

I see him on the beach in California. A beach in Big Sur, maybe, or in Monterey north of Fisherman’s Wharf, up Highway 1.

Folsom Prison

At Folsom Prison, he said, a cigarette was worth one-twentieth of a little jar of strawberry jam.

Soledad

Meanwhile, at Soledad, a cigarette was worth one-thirtieth of a jar.

Walla-Walla

And at Walla-Walla, a cigarette was worth the same as a jar of jam, for one thing because the prisoners at Walla-Walla—who knows why, maybe because of some brainwashing against food, maybe because they were hooked on that nicotine—would have nothing to do with anything that was sweet, and all they wanted was to breathe that smoke into their lungs.

Santa Cruz

Marius Newell had died in Santa Cruz.

Detroit

She invited me to stay at her house in Detroit, which was small, but for me it was as if a princess in Europe had offered me her castle for a resting place.

Europe

She invited me to stay at her house in Detroit, which was small, but for me it was as if a princess in Europe had offered me her castle for a resting place.

Russia

Lin Piao, and later on he wanted to kill Chairman Mao and he was killed in a plane crash when he was trying to get away to Russia.

New York

And when I’d finished the book I went to New York and took it to some publishers and one of them was interested and you all know the rest.

Des Moines to Lincoln on Route 80

He talked about the stars you see at night, say when you’re driving from Des Moines to Lincoln on Route 80 and the car breaks down...

California

each time Marius Newell walked along a beach in California he came upon a starfish.

Colchester Sun

They went to a store that specialized in the sale of rare fish in Colchester Sun, a white neighborhood, and they went in through the back door.

Santa Teresa, Sonora, Mexico

While Fate was sleeping, there was a report on an American who had disappeared in Santa Teresa, in the state of Sonora in the north of Mexico.

Arizona, USA

Medina gestured toward at some point in the broadcast, saying it was Arizona.

Brooklyn, New York, USA

He was an old black man, much older than Seaman, who lived in Brooklyn and was a member of the Communist Party.

Scottsboro, Alabama, USA

Antonio Jones often talked about what had happened in Scottsboro, about the Scottsboro trials, about the blacks who were almost lynched in Scottsboro.

Detroit, Michigan

Before he left Detroit he went to the only decent bookstore in the city and bought The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas, the former professor at Sandhurst.

Brooklyn, New York

One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing.

Tucson, Arizona

At the airport he bought a ticket to Tucson.

Cameroons, Africa

Beyond the delta of the Niger, the coast of Africa at last begins to turn south again and there, in the Cameroons, in the late eighteenth century, Liverpool merchants from England pioneered a new branch of the slave trade.

Gabon, Africa

Further on, and well to the south, the River Gabon, just north of Cape Lopez, was also coming into full activity as a slave region in the 1780s.

Corisco, Africa

But off the coast the Dutch had for a long time used the island of Corisco (the word in Portuguese means “flash of lightning”) as a trading center, though not specifically for slaves.

Elmina, Africa

Then he saw an illustration—there were quite a few in the book—showing a Portuguese fort on the Gold Coast, called Elmina, captured by the Danes in 1637.

Tucson, Arizona

At the Tucson airport he rented a car, bought a road map, and drove south out of the city.

Cochise’s Corner

A few miles down the road he saw a place called Cochise’s Corner and he parked in a big lot, next to a gas station.

Virginia, USA

By that I mean the dark-skinned people who were being transported for sale, to Virginia, say.

Paris, France

Or look at the French. During the Paris Commune of 1871, thousands of people were killed and no one batted an eye.

New York, USA

The story didn’t just make all the French newspapers, it was written up in papers across Europe, and even got a mention in the New York Examiner.

Mexico

This isn’t your first trip to Mexico.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

To Santa Teresa, said Fate.

Santa Teresa

“How far is it to Santa Teresa?” he asked.

Tucson

Once he was tempted to turn back, toward the restaurant or Tucson.

Patagonia

The other time he came to a town called Patagonia where a boy at the gas station told him the easiest way to get to Santa Teresa.

Phoenix

He drove for two hours along dark roads, with the radio on, listening to a Phoenix jazz station.

Gómez Palacio, Durango

A voice in Spanish began to tell the story of a singer from Gómez Palacio who had returned to his city in the state of Durango just to commit suicide.

Adobe

On the American side of the border stood a town called Adobe.

New York

He was in a bus with his mother and one of his mother’s sisters and they were taking a short trip, from New York to a town near New York.

Arena del Norte

Then the clerk ripped out a piece of paper and drew him a map with precise directions to the Arena del Norte boxing stadium, where the fight would be held.

Santa Teresa

Most of the reporters were staying at the Hotel Sonora Resort, in the center of Santa Teresa.

Hotel Sonora Resort

Most of the reporters were staying at the Hotel Sonora Resort, in the center of Santa Teresa.

Oceanside, California

The black guy was from Oceanside, California, or at least he had been born there and had later grown up in Los Angeles, and his name was Omar Abdul.

Los Angeles

The black guy was from Oceanside, California, or at least he had been born there and had later grown up in Los Angeles, and his name was Omar Abdul.

Detroit

Time for this shithole, equal parts lost cemetery and garbage dump, to turn into a kind of Detroit?

Santa Teresa

In Santa Teresa almost all the girls have long hair.

Sonora Resort

As they were driving to the Sonora Resort, where he planned to check his e-mail...

Mexico

Carreño was almost six and a half feet tall, unusually tall for Mexico, where people tend to be short.

California

There’s no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

Los Angeles

And then they set up a fight against Arthur Ashley, in Los Angeles.

Santa Teresa prison

This morning I drove past the Santa Teresa prison and I almost had a panic attack.

Sonora Resort

He spent the rest of the day drinking with Campbell in the bar at the Sonora Resort.

New York University

Fate’s at New York University, Campbell’s at a college in Sioux City.

Sioux City

Fate’s at New York University, Campbell’s at a college in Sioux City.

Smithland

But then Campbell started to talk about women, about a bar in a place called Smithland, a kind of country inn near the Little Sioux River.

Little Sioux River

But then Campbell started to talk about women, about a bar in a place called Smithland, a kind of country inn near the Little Sioux River.

Harlem

He thought about his mother and what she must have thought about at night in Harlem, not looking out the window to see the few stars shining in the sky.

Tucson, Arizona

thinking that after the fight that night he would head straight back to Tucson, where he would try to catch a red-eye to New York.

New York, New York

thinking that after the fight that night he would head straight back to Tucson, where he would try to catch a red-eye to New York.

Arena del Norte

There was no one at the Arena del Norte. The main door was closed.

Sonora Resort

At the bar at the Sonora Resort he found almost all of the reporters who were covering the fight.

Santa Teresa

By the time they reach the heights of Santa Teresa they’ll have disappeared.

Santa Teresa

The clerk shook his head and looked through a pile of papers on the desk until he found the card of a Santa Teresa cybercafé.

New York

It’s open all night,” he said, which surprised Fate, because even in New York he’d never heard of cybercafés that stayed open twenty-four hours.

Harlem

If he closed his eyes he could see a white dress lifted by the wind on the streets of Harlem as invincible laughter spilled down the walls, running along the sidewalks, cool and warm as the white dress.

Santa Teresa

The first dead woman of May was never identified, so it was assumed she was a migrant from some central or southern state who had stopped in Santa Teresa on her way to the United States.

Calle Jazmín, Colonia Carranza

She was twenty-six, a resident of Calle Jazmín, one of the streets parallel to Avenida Carranza, in Colonia Carranza, and employed at the File-Sis maquiladora.

File-Sis maquiladora, road to Nogales

Employed at the File-Sis maquiladora, recently built on the road to Nogales, some five miles from Santa Teresa.

Los Zancudos

The killer turned out to be her boyfriend, who tried to flee that very night and was caught by the train tracks, not far from a nightspot called Los Zancudos where he had gotten drunk earlier.

Cerro Estrella

The last dead woman of May was found on the slopes of Cerro Estrella, the hills that lend their name to the Colonia that surrounds them unevenly.

Phoenix

He remembered that his son, who was studying in Phoenix, had once told him that plastic bags took hundreds, maybe thousands of years to disintegrate.

San Rafael, Calle Patriotas Mexicanos, Santa Teresa

One day a stranger came into the church of San Rafael, on Calle Patriotas Mexicanos, in the center of Santa Teresa, during the early service.

Santa Teresa asylum

Later Juan de Dios Martínez called the Santa Teresa asylum and asked whether they had an inmate who matched the description he had compiled.

Guadalajara

No, said the director. I was born in Guadalajara and I studied in Mexico City and then in San Francisco, at Berkeley.

Mexico City

No, said the director. I was born in Guadalajara and I studied in Mexico City and then in San Francisco, at Berkeley.

San Francisco, at Berkeley

No, said the director. I was born in Guadalajara and I studied in Mexico City and then in San Francisco, at Berkeley.

Santa Catalina, Colonia Lomas del Toro

Two days later, the stranger got into the church of Santa Catalina, in Colonia Lomas del Toro, late at night when the building was closed, and he urinated and defecated on the altar, as well as decapitating almost all the statues in his path.

Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, Colonia Reforma

Three days after the desecration of the church of Santa Catalina, in the early morning hours, the Penitent slipped into the church of Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, in Colonia Reforma, the oldest church in the city, built in the mideighteenth century and once the seat of the diocese of Santa Teresa.

University of Santa Teresa

Three priests and two young Pápago Indian seminarians who were studying anthropology and history at the University of Santa Teresa slept in an adjacent building, located at the corner of Calle Soler and Calle Ortiz Rubio.

Calle Soler

Juan de Dios Martínez examined the window the Penitent had come in through and then he went outside and spent a while walking along Calle Soler and then Calle Ortiz Rubio and through a plaza the residents used as free parking at night.

Calle Ortiz Rubio

Juan de Dios Martínez examined the window the Penitent had come in through and then he went outside and spent a while walking along Calle Soler and then Calle Ortiz Rubio and through a plaza the residents used as free parking at night.

Kino

It’s a long way from Kino to Reforma.

Reforma

It’s a long way from Kino to Reforma.

Lomas del Toro

It’s a long way from Reforma to Lomas del Toro, too.

Hermosillo

He wrote a report for the Hermosillo office and then he stood out by the vending machine and drank a cup of coffee.

Calle Yucatecos

Her body was found in the illegal dump near Calle Yucatecos, on the way to the Hermanos Corinto brick factory.

El Chile

The dump didn’t have a formal name, because it wasn’t supposed to be there, but it had an informal name: it was called El Chile.

Mexico City

In Mexico City they call them teporochos, but a teporocho is a survivor, a cynic and a humorist, compared to the human beings who swarmed alone or in pairs around El Chile.

Mexico

especially if you consider that we’re in Mexico and religion has always been a problem here.

Colonia Michoacán

always at Elvira’s apartment in a new building in Colonia Michoacán, on a street of upper-middle-class houses

Villaviciosa

Around this time, Pedro Negrete traveled to Villaviciosa to hire someone trustworthy for his old friend Pedro Rengifo.

Santa Teresa

Epifanio tried to tune in a Santa Teresa radio station but he couldn’t get it and turned off the radio.

Santa Teresa

At El Altillo, when the first lights of Santa Teresa appeared, the police chief broke the silence into which the three of them had fallen.

Santa Teresa

At dusk they returned to Santa Teresa, children scattering through the countryside like defeated soldiers.

Santa Teresa

He’d been to Santa Teresa only once before, with some old women who had come to the market to sell herbs.

Jalisco

The bigger one was from the state of Jalisco.

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua

The other was from Ciudad Juárez, in Chihuahua.

Buenavista subdivision

In September another dead woman was found, this time in a car in the Buenavista subdivision, past Colonia Lindavista.

Colonia Lindavista

In September another dead woman was found, this time in a car in the Buenavista subdivision, past Colonia Lindavista.

Colonia Maytorena

The rest of the week, visits were by appointment, and by eight there was no one left except the occasional pack of kids or dogs who had come down from Colonia Maytorena and couldn’t find their way back up.

Chicago, United States

According to some friends, Sandoval had relatives in Chicago.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

For a few days the police looked for Feliciano José Sandoval in Santa Teresa and Lomas de Poniente, the Tamaulipas town he was from...

Lomas de Poniente, Tamaulipas, Mexico

For a few days the police looked for Feliciano José Sandoval in Santa Teresa and Lomas de Poniente, the Tamaulipas town he was from...

Arsenio Farrell industrial park, Mexico

The next dead woman appeared in October, at the dump in the Arsenio Farrell industrial park.

El Progreso industrial park, Mexico

The odd thing about the case was that Marta Navales Gómez worked at Aiwo, a Japanese maquiladora located in the El Progreso industrial park...

Hipermercado Del Norte, Mexico

Subsequent questioning at Hipermercado Del Norte yielded the following results...

Santa Teresa, Mexico

An unsuccessful attempt was made to discover the whereabouts of Elsa Luz Pintado in Santa Teresa.

Patagonia, Arizona, United States

In Arizona he got lost in the desert and after walking for three days, he made it to Patagonia, badly dehydrated...

Tijuana, Mexico

The tall one from Tijuana liked to talk about California and the women he had met there.

California, USA

The tall one from Tijuana liked to talk about California and the women he had met there.

Juárez, Mexico

He told lies, stories appreciated only by his partner, the man from Juárez, who was quieter but struck Lalo as the less trustworthy of the two.

Calle Astrónomos, Colonia Madero

First she stopped at a boutique and then she went into a drugstore and later she decided to visit a friend on Calle Astrónomos, in Colonia Madero.

Colonia Veracruz

Her older brother, fifteen, worked as a delivery boy and messenger for a bakery not far from Calle Industrial, where they lived, in Colonia Veracruz.

Colonia Morelos

At the time, they all lived in Colonia Morelos, near the Arsenio Farrell industrial park, in a house Penélope’s father had built himself.

Hidalgo, Mexico

Both parents were from the state of Hidalgo, in the middle of the country, and both had migrated north in 1985, in search of work.

California, USA

He promised he would write as soon as he got to California.

Colonia Carranza

There were children there from Colonia Carranza and Colonia Veracruz and Colonia Morelos and even a few children from the center of the city.

Santa Teresa

For three days her brother crisscrossed Santa Teresa on exhausting walks looking for a black car.

Colonia San Damián

A week later her body turned up. It was found by some city maintenance workers in a drainage pipe that ran beneath the city from Colonia San Damián to the El Ojito ravine.

El Ojito ravine

A week later her body turned up. It was found by some city maintenance workers in a drainage pipe that ran beneath the city from Colonia San Damián to the El Ojito ravine.

Casas Negras highway

A week later her body turned up. It was found by some city maintenance workers in a drainage pipe that ran beneath the city from Colonia San Damián to the El Ojito ravine, near the Casas Negras highway.

Calle Obispo

The tenement was on Calle Obispo, and after crossing a hall where the stairs began, the visitor came out into a huge courtyard, with a big fountain in the middle, around which rose three floors of flaking arcades where children played or neighbor women talked.

Santa Teresa

almost all Santa Teresa papers. The bottom ones were yellowing.

Colonia Centeno

Juan de Dios Martínez was ordered to stop working on the Penitent case and look into a series of armed robberies that had taken place in Colonia Centeno and Colonia Podestá.

Colonia Podestá

Juan de Dios Martínez was ordered to stop working on the Penitent case and look into a series of armed robberies that had taken place in Colonia Centeno and Colonia Podestá.

Huntsville, Arizona

She lived in Huntsville, about thirty miles from Santa Teresa, in Arizona, and she had been to El Adobe first, with a friend, and then they had driven across the border, ready for a sampling, at least, of Santa Teresa’s nonstop nightlife.

Santa Teresa

She lived in Huntsville, about thirty miles from Santa Teresa, in Arizona, and she had been to El Adobe first, with a friend, and then they had driven across the border, ready for a sampling, at least, of Santa Teresa’s nonstop nightlife.

Tombstone, Arizona

They both worked at a crafts factory in Huntsville that made Indian beads sold wholesale to tourist gift shops in Tombstone, Tucson, Phoenix, and Apache Junction.

Tucson, Arizona

They both worked at a crafts factory in Huntsville that made Indian beads sold wholesale to tourist gift shops in Tombstone, Tucson, Phoenix, and Apache Junction.

Phoenix, Arizona

They both worked at a crafts factory in Huntsville that made Indian beads sold wholesale to tourist gift shops in Tombstone, Tucson, Phoenix, and Apache Junction.

Apache Junction, Arizona

They both worked at a crafts factory in Huntsville that made Indian beads sold wholesale to tourist gift shops in Tombstone, Tucson, Phoenix, and Apache Junction.

Mississippi

Lucy Anne had been born in a little town in Mississippi.

California

She was from California, but she was happy in Arizona, where there weren’t many people and life was more relaxed.

Plaza de Armas

Then they drove randomly around the center, visiting the city’s historic landmarks: the cathedral, the town hall, some old colonial buildings, the colonnaded Plaza de Armas.

Calle Verdejo, Colonia Centro-Norte

The consulate was on Calle Verdejo, in Colonia Centro-Norte, not far from where she’d been the night before, and it was still closed.

Colonia Rubén Darío

Before it got dark she checked out several hotels. The ones that seemed good were too expensive and finally she got a room at a boardinghouse in Colonia Rubén Darío, without private bath or television.

Colonia Lomas del Toro

In Colonia Lomas del Toro once again, a month later, the body of Rebeca Fernández de Hoyos, thirty-three, was found.

El Catrín, Calle Xalapa, Colonia Rubén Darío

She had been a waitress at El Catrín, a bar on Calle Xalapa, in nearby Colonia Rubén Darío.

Holmes & West maquiladora

Previously she had worked at the Holmes & West and Aiwo maquiladoras, where she was fired for trying to organize a union.

Aiwo maquiladora

Previously she had worked at the Holmes & West and Aiwo maquiladoras, where she was fired for trying to organize a union.

Oaxaca

Rebeca Fernández de Hoyos was from Oaxaca, although she had been living in the north of Sonora for more than ten years now.

Tijuana

When she was eighteen, she had lived in Tijuana, where she appeared on a register of prostitutes, and she had made several unsuccessful attempts to settle in the United States, brought back to Mexico four times by the migra.

Calle Sayuca, Colonia Las Flores

Pedro Pérez Ochoa lived at the end of Calle Sayuca, in Colonia Las Flores, in a shack built, rather skillfully, of adobe and bits of trash, with room for a mattress and a table, a few yards from the waste pipe of the EastWest maquiladora, where he had worked.

EastWest maquiladora

Pedro Pérez Ochoa lived at the end of Calle Sayuca, in Colonia Las Flores, in a shack built, rather skillfully, of adobe and bits of trash, with room for a mattress and a table, a few yards from the waste pipe of the EastWest maquiladora, where he had worked.

Cananea

a sister who must be around sixty by now and a niece who had never married and lived in Cananea, where he was from too, but Cananea could start to feel small, stifling, tiny

Santa Teresa

he turned onto the Cananea–Santa Teresa highway, which was one of the prettiest highways he had ever seen in his life, especially at night, and drove nonstop to Santa Teresa

Calle Luciérnaga, Colonia Rubén Darío

where he had a cozy little house on Calle Luciérnaga, in Colonia Rubén Darío, you’re welcome to stay anytime, Harry, my friend

Avenida Madero-Norte

he visited a whorehouse called Internal Affairs, on Avenida Madero-Norte, where he spent a while drinking highballs

Tijuana

The first letter was from an old friend of Miguel’s who lived in Tijuana, although the envelope wasn’t postmarked, and it was a catalog of memories of the happy times they’d had together.

Santa Teresa

The second letter was from a woman. It had been postmarked in Santa Teresa itself.

Mexico City

The fourth letter was from another friend, and it might have come from Mexico City, although the postmark was illegible.

Chucarit, near Navojoa, in the south of Sonora

The last letter was from a girl from Chucarit, near Navojoa, in the south of Sonora, and, predictably, it was a love letter.

Casas Negras

In October the next victim was found at the new city dump, a festering heap a mile and a half long and half a mile wide in a gully south of the El Ojito ravine, off the Casas Negras highway.

Hermosillo

A report was also issued on the conduct of the head of the judicial police in Hermosillo.

Santa Teresa

The building was on Calle Alondra, in Colonia Podestá, in the upper part of Santa Teresa.

Avenida Cuauhtémoc, Colonia San Damián

and some nights he would be at the site until two in the morning and then go home, to Avenida Cuauhtémoc, in Colonia San Damián.

Colonia Las Flores

The body was discovered by some women from Colonia Las Flores who had hung their washing on the edge of the lot, and it was they who called the Red Cross.

General Sepúlveda industrial park

The next day it was learned that the dead girl was Silvana Pérez Arjona, a machine operator at a maquiladora in the General Sepúlveda industrial park, not far from where the body had been found.

Colonia Lomas del Toro

She had been the only one in school, at Profesor Emilio Cervantes, a high school in Colonia Lomas del Toro.

Calle Prometeo

and finally moved into his house on Calle Prometeo.

Colonia Carranza

since he’d been seen with her on the dates in question, strutting around Colonia Carranza’s ramshackle park, where there’d been a carnival

Mexico City

Epifanio said they were books sent from Mexico City or Hermosillo

Hermosillo

Epifanio said they were books sent from Mexico City or Hermosillo

Santa Teresa

the news was on Santa Teresa TV and in the two city papers

Chucarit

Before the year was over, Harry Magaña traveled to Chucarit and found the girl who had been writing love letters to Miguel Montes.

Huatabampo

They went to buy themselves from the fishermen, driving along the coast from Huatabampo to Los Médanos and sometimes farther north, to Isla Lobos.

Los Médanos

They went to buy themselves from the fishermen, driving along the coast from Huatabampo to Los Médanos and sometimes farther north, to Isla Lobos.

Isla Lobos

They went to buy themselves from the fishermen, driving along the coast from Huatabampo to Los Médanos and sometimes farther north, to Isla Lobos.

Santa Teresa

Where do you think he is now? I don’t know, said María del Mar. In Santa Teresa?

Tijuana

Early in the morning he got to Tijuana. All he knew was that Miguel Montes’s friend in Tijuana was called Chucho.

Santa Barbara

Five years ago we took a course together in Santa Barbara, said Harry Magaña, do you remember?

Huntsville, Arizona

Fuck, of course, it’s the sheriff from Huntsville, Arizona.

East L.A.

The cop from East L.A. said his was fine, getting fatter every day.

Los Angeles

Are you in Los Angeles, Harry? the other man wanted to know.

Calle Oro

At three in the afternoon, under a blazing sun, he rang the bell at 401 Calle Oro.

Río Colorado

As he crossed the Río Colorado he saw a meteor in the sky, or a shooting star, and he made a silent wish as his mother had taught him.

San Luis

He drove the lonely road from San Luis to Los Vidrios, where he stopped and had two cups of coffee, his mind blank, feeling the hot liquid burning his esophagus as it went down.

Guadalajara

This René Alvarado was from Guadalajara and according to what he said he had interests in the stock market.

Los Vidrios

He drove the lonely road from San Luis to Los Vidrios, where he stopped and had two cups of coffee, his mind blank, feeling the hot liquid burning his esophagus as it went down.

Sonoyta

Then he turned onto the Los Vidrios–Sonoyta road and after that he headed south, toward Caborca.

Caborca

Then he turned onto the Los Vidrios–Sonoyta road and after that he headed south, toward Caborca.

Altar

He turned east and passed through Altar, Pueblo Nuevo, and Santa Ana, finally ending up on the four-lane highway to Nogales and Santa Teresa.

Pueblo Nuevo

He turned east and passed through Altar, Pueblo Nuevo, and Santa Ana, finally ending up on the four-lane highway to Nogales and Santa Teresa.

Santa Ana

He turned east and passed through Altar, Pueblo Nuevo, and Santa Ana, finally ending up on the four-lane highway to Nogales and Santa Teresa.

Nogales

He turned east and passed through Altar, Pueblo Nuevo, and Santa Ana, finally ending up on the four-lane highway to Nogales and Santa Teresa.

Santa Teresa

He turned east and passed through Altar, Pueblo Nuevo, and Santa Ana, finally ending up on the four-lane highway to Nogales and Santa Teresa.

Colonia Carranza

Miss Isela took a narrow, hardcover ledger out of a drawer and flipped through it. Elsa Fuentes, as far as we know, lives at 23 Calle Santa Catarina. And where is that? asked Harry Magaña. In Colonia Carranza, said Miss Isela.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

Elsita lives in Santa Teresa, said the woman.

Toconilco, Mexico

In Toconilco, said the woman.

Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico

And where is Tepehuanes? yelled Harry Magaña. Why, in Durango, señor.

Hermosillo, Mexico

What he managed to get straight was that Lupe lived in Hermosillo.

Huntsville, USA

He took a nap at Demetrio Águila’s, on Calle Luciérnaga, and dreamed of a street in Huntsville.

Calle Portal de San Pablo, Santa Teresa, Mexico

Night was falling fast in Santa Teresa when Harry Magaña got to Calle Portal de San Pablo.

Santa Teresa

The first dead woman was found in a room at Mi Reposo, a hotel in the center of Santa Teresa.

Hermosillo

In the hotel registry, Peñalva Brown had left an Hermosillo address.

Colonia Ciudad Nueva

Her name was Sofia Serrano and she had worked at three maquiladoras and as a waitress, and most recently as a whore in the vacant lots of Colonia Ciudad Nueva, behind the cemetery.

Colonia Estrella

The second dead woman turned up next to a trash can in Colonia Estrella.

Avenida Real

Shortly afterward she was identified as Olga Paredes Pacheco, twenty-five, salesgirl at a clothing store on Avenida Real, near the center of the city.

Calle Hermanos Redondo, in Colonia Rubén Darío

Olga Paredes Pacheco, twenty-five, salesgirl at a clothing store on Avenida Real, near the center of the city, single, five foot three, resident of Calle Hermanos Redondo, in Colonia Rubén Darío, where she lived with her younger sister, Elisa Paredes Pacheco.

Santa Teresa, Mexico

In May the American consul visited the mayor of Santa Teresa and then, along with the latter, paid an informal visit to the police chief.

Hermosillo, Mexico

But in July two dead women turned up, and the first protests were staged by a feminist organization, Women of Sonora for Democracy and Peace (WSDP), a group whose headquarters were in Hermosillo and that had only three members in Santa Teresa.

Querétaro, Mexico

Three days later it was learned that she was Paula García Zapatero, resident of Colonia Lomas del Toro, machine operator at the maquiladora TECNOSA, born in the state of Querétaro.

Sage, California, USA

The Tucson cops spoke with the consular officers Kurt A. Banks and Dick Henderson, since the consul was spending some time at his ranch in Sage, California, actually a rotting wooden cabin, on the far side of the Ramona Indian Reservation.

Escondido, California, USA

while his wife took a few months’ break with her sister in Escondido, near San Diego.

Tucson, Arizona, USA

In August 1995, the bodies of seven women were found, Florita Almada made her second appearance on Sonora television, and two Tucson cops came to Santa Teresa asking questions.

Santa Teresa

I’m talking about the women brutally murdered in Santa Teresa, I’m talking about the girls and the mothers of families and the workers from all walks of life who turn up dead each day in the neighborhoods and on the edges of that industrious city in the northern part of our state. I’m talking about Santa Teresa. I’m talking about Santa Teresa.

Sonora

And then she said: it makes me very angry, it makes me frightened and angry what’s happening in the lovely state of Sonora, which is my homeland, the place I was born and will probably die.

Jerusalem

When King Solomon ordered the Temple of Jerusalem to be built, he strictly forbade the use of iron as a support in the construction, even in the smallest details, and he also forbade the use of iron in circumcision, a practice, let it be said in passing and with no intention to offend, that might’ve had its purposes in those days and those deserts, but now, with modern hygiene, strikes me as unnecessary.

Santa Teresa–Cananea highway

As for the dead women of August 1995, the first was Aurora Muñoz Álvarez and her body was found on the pavement of the Santa Teresa–Cananea highway.

Colonia Trabajadores

The body of Emilia Escalante Sanjuán, thirty-three, was found, presenting multiple hematomas over the chest and neck. The body was discovered at the intersection of Michoacán and General Saavedra, in Colonia Trabajadores.

Colonia Morelos

Emilia Escalante Sanjuán lived in Colonia Morelos, in the west of the city, and worked at the maquiladora New-Markets.

Casas Negras highway

A week later the body of Estrella Ruiz Sandoval, seventeen, turned up next to the Casas Negras highway.

Santa Teresa

At eighteen she had come to Santa Teresa, where she worked at the HorizonW&E maquiladora and El Mueble Mexicano.

Calle Amistad, Colonia La Preciada

One day after Estrella Ruiz Sandoval’s body was found, the body of Mónica Posadas, twenty, was discovered in a vacant lot near Calle Amistad, in Colonia La Preciada.

Calle San Hipólito

The inspectors centered their investigation on the family circle and among the acquaintances of Mónica Posadas, who lived with her family on Calle San Hipólito, about six blocks from the vacant lot where the body was found.

Santa Teresa–Caborca highway

Two days after Mónica’s body was discovered in the vacant lot on Calle Amistad, the body of another dead woman appeared on the Santa Teresa–Caborca highway.

Colonia Madero

A week later, when August was nearing an end, the body of Jacqueline Ríos, twenty-five, salesgirl at a drugstore in Colonia Madero, was found next to the Santa Teresa–Cananea highway.

Calle Bulgaria, Colonia Madero

She had an apartment with a friend on Calle Bulgaria, in Colonia Madero, and both dreamed of going to live in California someday.

Santa Teresa

He hadn’t forgotten—although he wondered himself why the memory persisted—the days he’d spent in Santa Teresa or the killings of women, or the priest-killer called the Penitent, who had vanished as mysteriously as he’d appeared.

Colonia Guerrero

Usually they ended up at a bar frequented by whores in Colonia Guerrero, a huge lounge presided over by a seven-foot-tall plaster statue of Aphrodite.

Santa Teresa—Cananea highway

Three days after the discovery of Marisa Hernández Silva’s mutilated body, the body of an unidentified woman turned up next to the Santa Teresa—Cananea highway.

Cerro Estrella

At the end of September, the body of a thirteen-year-old girl was found on the east side of Cerro Estrella.

Calle Esperanza, Colonia Lomas del Toro

He talked to an older sister, who was married and lived on Calle Esperanza now, in Colonia Lomas del Toro.

Rex

The three liked the movies and on Sundays, though not every Sunday, they would go downtown, where they usually saw the double feature at the Rex.

Colonia Centeno

Other times they just window-shopped, looking at women’s clothes especially, or they went to a mall in Colonia Centeno.

Casas Negras

My father found it, said Rosa María Medina, in Casas Negras, and he carried it back all by himself.

Colonia Veracruz

It was just the two of us and then we went to the carnival in Colonia Veracruz and we forgot all about it.

Santa Teresa

In October no dead women turned up in Santa Teresa, in the city or the desert, and work to get rid of the illegal dump El Chile was permanently halted.

Hermosillo

In October five judicial police inspectors were sent from Hermosillo to supplement the team of inspectors already in the city.

Caborca

One of them came from Caborca, another from Ciudad Obregón, and the remaining three from Hermosillo.

Ciudad Obregón

One of them came from Caborca, another from Ciudad Obregón, and the remaining three from Hermosillo.

Colonia Veracruz

When he came to Calle Universidad he accelerated and headed off in the direction of Colonia Veracruz.

Santa Teresa

He owned two stores in Santa Teresa where he sold everything from Walkmans to computers, and he had another similar store in Tijuana.

Tijuana

He owned two stores in Santa Teresa where he sold everything from Walkmans to computers, and he had another similar store in Tijuana.

United States

He also traveled to the United States every two months, although not on a fixed date or in a regular way, except that none of his trips ever lasted more than three days.

Denver

He had lived for a while in Denver and left because of woman trouble.

Colonia El Cerezal

The place was in Colonia El Cerezal, a middle-class neighborhood of one- and two-story houses.

Colonia Madero

Far from the noise of Colonia Madero, which was a little farther out, and away from the din of the center.

Tampa

That’s how he found out that Haas had never lived in Denver, but in Tampa, where he had been accused of attempted rape by a woman named Laurie Enciso.

Bielefeld, West Germany

He was born in Bielefeld, in the former West Germany, in 1955, and he immigrated to the United States in 1980.

Mexico, northern Sonora

Coming to live in Mexico, in northern Sonora, was evidently a fortunate choice, because he soon opened a second store in Santa Teresa.

Colonia Centeno

The other store was in Colonia Centeno.

Casas Negras

A few days later, also down in the valley but on the other side of the Casas Negras highway, the body of another girl was found...

El Obelisco

...and the same would be true if he had dumped the first body on the opposite side of the highway, in other words near the settlement of El Obelisco...

Santa Teresa

...which was neither a village nor exactly a suburb of Santa Teresa, but a way station for the poorest of the poor...

Cananea highway

A week after the discovery of the corpse of the thirteen-year-old girl on the outskirts of El Obelisco, the body of a girl of about sixteen was found by the Cananea highway.

Cerro Estrella

Almost at the same time, the body of another girl, approximately sixteen years old, was found, stabbed and mauled... on the slopes of Cerro Estrella...

General Sepúlveda industrial park

The first was Beverly Beltrán Hoyos. She was sixteen and she worked at a maquiladora in General Sepúlveda industrial park.

Colonia Remedios Mayor

The second victim of the day, and the last of March, was found in a vacant lot west of Colonia Remedios Mayor and the illegal dump El Chile...

Santa Teresa

The mayor of Santa Teresa announced to the press that the city could relax, the killer was behind bars and the subsequent killings of women were the work of common criminals.

Veracruz

Julián Centeno was forty-eight, and the dancer, according to the girls she worked with, was no more than twenty-three. He was from Veracruz and she was from Mexico City and they had come to Sonora a few years ago.

Mexico City

Julián Centeno was forty-eight, and the dancer, according to the girls she worked with, was no more than twenty-three. He was from Veracruz and she was from Mexico City and they had come to Sonora a few years ago.

Sonora

Julián Centeno was forty-eight, and the dancer, according to the girls she worked with, was no more than twenty-three. He was from Veracruz and she was from Mexico City and they had come to Sonora a few years ago.

Colonia Madero-Norte

At her small, sparsely furnished apartment at 79 Calle Lorenzo Covarrubias in Colonia Madero-Norte, no documents were found that might clear up the identity of the victim.

Casas Negras highway

A few days after the murder of Paula Sánchez Garcés, the body of a girl of about seventeen, five foot seven, long hair, and slight build, appeared by the Casas Negras highway.

Pueblo Azul highway

At the end of June, the body of another woman, approximately twenty-one, was found on the way out of Colonia El Cerezal, near the Pueblo Azul highway.

Colonia San Bartolomé

The two of them still lived in Santa Teresa, in Colonia San Bartolomé, and both worked at a maquiladora in Arsenio Farrell industrial park.

Arsenio Farrell industrial park

The two of them still lived in Santa Teresa, in Colonia San Bartolomé, and both worked at a maquiladora in Arsenio Farrell industrial park.

Colonia Maytorena

The latter occupied himself walking around Colonia Maytorena and Colonia Cerezal, accompanied by an old shopkeeper who had been a policeman.

Colonia Cerezal

The latter occupied himself walking around Colonia Maytorena and Colonia Cerezal, accompanied by an old shopkeeper who had been a policeman.

Colonia Aurora

Segovia made a living acting as a middleman for the dogfights held in a few yards in Colonia Aurora.

Pueblo Azul highway

Then they made their way into the desert and proceeded to rape her. First Olivárez raped her. Then he ordered his cousin to rape her too, which his cousin refused to do at first. Olivárez’s manner, however, convinced him that opposition could be fatal. After the two of them had raped her, Olivárez attacked his wife with the knife, stabbing her over and over. Then, with their hands, they dug a hole, inadequate by any measure, and that was where they left the body.

Colonia Madero

He walked for forty-five minutes to Colonia Madero, where he waited half an hour for the Avenida Madero–Avenida Carranza bus.

Colonia Carranza

He got off in Colonia Carranza and walked north, crossing Colonia Veracruz and Colonia Ciudad Nueva, until he came to Avenida Cementerio.

Colonia Veracruz

He got off in Colonia Carranza and walked north, crossing Colonia Veracruz and Colonia Ciudad Nueva, until he came to Avenida Cementerio.

Colonia Ciudad Nueva

He got off in Colonia Carranza and walked north, crossing Colonia Veracruz and Colonia Ciudad Nueva, until he came to Avenida Cementerio.

Avenida Cementerio

He got off in Colonia Carranza and walked north, crossing Colonia Veracruz and Colonia Ciudad Nueva, until he came to Avenida Cementerio.

Colonia San Bartolomé

From there it was a straight shot to where he lived in Colonia San Bartolomé.

Santa Teresa

The happy ending of the Erica Mendoza case earned the Santa Teresa police a modicum of trust in the media.

Mexico City

In the Sonora media, that is, because in Mexico City a feminist group called Women in Action (WA) made a TV appearance denouncing the endless trickle of deaths in Santa Teresa and asking the government to send Mexico City investigators to Santa Teresa to resolve the situation, since by all accounts the problem was too much for the Sonora police, who were incapable of handling it, if not complicit.

Hermosillo

And why this scorn for the seer from Hermosillo?

Cananea highway

In July, the body of a girl was found some five hundred yards from the pavement of the Cananea highway.

University of Santa Teresa

Those studies were carried out by three students of forensic medicine at the University of Santa Teresa, and their conclusions were filed and then lost.

Pachuca

The missing person reports were checked and the dead woman turned out to be Guadalupe Elena Blanco. She had arrived in Santa Teresa from Pachuca less than a week before, with her father, mother, and three younger siblings.

El Progreso industrial park

The day of her disappearance she had a job interview at a maquiladora in the El Progreso industrial park and that was the last anyone saw of her.

Pueblo Azul

On the last day of September, however, the bodies of two women were found near Pueblo Azul.

Santa Teresa

The place they were discovered was a spot the motorcyclists of Santa Teresa used for races.

Rillito, outside of Tucson

After the American police were informed, the dead women were revealed to be the Reynolds sisters, from Rillito, outside of Tucson, Lola and Janet Reynolds, thirty and forty-four respectively, both with drug-trafficking records.

Sonora

Maybe they crossed the border with their victims and killed them when they got to Sonora, or maybe they killed them in Arizona, two shots each to the head, the women still half asleep, and then crossed the border and left them near Pueblo Azul.

Arizona

Maybe they crossed the border with their victims and killed them when they got to Sonora, or maybe they killed them in Arizona, two shots each to the head, the women still half asleep, and then crossed the border and left them near Pueblo Azul.

Santa Teresa

In October the body of another woman was found in the desert, south of Santa Teresa, between two country roads.

Santa Teresa prison

In October, too, Jesús Chimal of Los Caciques, responsible for the death of Linda Vázquez, was admitted to the Santa Teresa prison.

Nayarit

María Sandra had been born in a town in the state of Nayarit.

Sonora

They were Mexicans, they sounded like they were from Sonora, and they seemed loose, ready to party all night.

Sinaloa

Some models had begun to be seen regularly in Santa Teresa, especially among the small groups involved in drug trafficking or among kidnappers out of Sinaloa.

Podestá ravine

In the middle of November the body of another dead woman was discovered in the Podestá ravine.

Colonia La Preciada

She lived with a friend in a modest house, though it had electricity and running water, in Colonia La Preciada.

Podestá ravine

Three days after the discovery of Luisa Cardona’s body, the body of another woman was found in the same Podestá ravine.

Colonia El Cerezal

The area they were assigned to that day stretched from Colonia El Cerezal to Colonia Las Cumbres.

Colonia Las Cumbres

The area they were assigned to that day stretched from Colonia El Cerezal to Colonia Las Cumbres.

Santa Teresa

taking him out to eat at the only place that served posole in the center of Santa Teresa at that murky time of night.

Colonia El Cerezal

the bodies of Estefanía Rivas, fifteen, and Herminia Noriega, thirteen, were found in an empty house on Calle García Herrero, in Colonia El Cerezal.

José Vasconcelos Primary School

The two little girls and Herminia went to José Vasconcelos Primary School.

Yuma

Did he say where he was going? he asked. Yuma, answered his father.

Santa Teresa

others said it was a strange man who didn’t speak to anyone in the neighborhood and sometimes didn’t appear for days, as if he worked outside of Santa Teresa

Paris, France

She dreamed about flying to Paris, where she would rent a tiny apartment, a studio, say between Villiers and Porte de Clichy, and then she would go to see a famous doctor, a wonder-working plastic surgeon...

Santa Teresa

She confessed that she sometimes dreamed of giving up everything. In other words, making a drastic break, no holds barred. She dreamed, for example, of selling her apartment and two other properties she owned in Santa Teresa...

Santa Teresa

it was reported or hinted at in some Mexican media that films of real murders, snuff films, were being shot in the north, and that the capital of snuff was Santa Teresa.

Colonia del Valle

One night two reporters talked to General Humberto Paredes, the former police chief of Mexico City, in his walled castle in Colonia del Valle.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

In January, the correspondent for a Buenos Aires newspaper spent three days in Santa Teresa on his way to Los Angeles and wrote a story about the city and the killings of women.

Santa Teresa

In January, the correspondent for a Buenos Aires newspaper spent three days in Santa Teresa on his way to Los Angeles and wrote a story about the city and the killings of women.

Los Angeles, USA

In January, the correspondent for a Buenos Aires newspaper spent three days in Santa Teresa on his way to Los Angeles and wrote a story about the city and the killings of women.

Phoenix, USA

The next day he took a bus to Phoenix and caught a plane from there to Los Angeles, where he spent his days interviewing any actors who would agree to be interviewed, which wasn’t many, and his nights writing a long article about the killings of women in Santa Teresa.

Tigre, Argentina

Two days later they left for Tigre. After a week of filming the whole team returned to Buenos Aires.

Pampa, Argentina

A little later, in a fleet of two trucks and a pickup, they left for the pampa. They looked, said one of the Argentinean actors, like a troupe of gypsies heading into the unknown.

New York, USA

In New York he tried in vain to forget her. The first few days were tinged with melancholy and regret and JT thought he would never recover.

Calle Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In Buenos Aires, meanwhile, Mike edited the film in a cheap studio that he rented by the hour, on Calle Corrientes.

Trejo's

At the same time of day, cops at the end of their shifts met for breakfast at Trejo’s, a long coffee shop like a coffin, with few windows.

Santa Teresa

This kind of event was as popular among Santa Teresa cops as jokes about women.

Villaviciosa

raped by a Belgian soldier in a one-room adobe house outside Villaviciosa.

Santa Teresa

A week later Rafael Expósito borrowed a rifle and went walking to Santa Teresa.

Colonia México

the whores who back then walked the streets of Colonia México, near the border and the American town of El Adobe

Teatro Carlota

The first day he spent searching for Celestino Arraya’s haunts and a place to sleep for free.

El Adobe

the whores who back then walked the streets of Colonia México, near the border and the American town of El Adobe

Hermosillo, Mexico

Sergio González went looking for Florita Almada at Hermosillo’s Channel 7 studios.

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City, said Sergio. Crazy city, said the driver.

Bahía Kino, Mexico

I went with him to his room, said Reinaldo, the best suite at the best hotel in Bahía Kino.

Tijuana, Mexico

I remember I turned on the TV and found a late-night show out of Tijuana, a talk show.

Berkeley, California, USA

At the time, José Patricio was in love with a gringo, a law professor at Berkeley.

Santa Teresa

Yolanda Palacio said it wasn’t all bad in Santa Teresa.

Oaxaca

a blessing for so many women from Oaxaca or Zacatecas.

Zacatecas

a blessing for so many women from Oaxaca or Zacatecas.

Hermosillo

sent samples to the crime lab analysts in Hermosillo for confirmation

Casas Negras highway

Aurora Ibánez Medel, whose disappearance had been reported a few weeks ago by her husband, appeared dead by the side of the Casas Negras highway.

Colonia Maytorena

In July, the body of a woman was found in a sewage ditch to the east of Colonia Maytorena, not far from a dirt track and some high-voltage electrical towers.

Santa Teresa cemetery

After the necessary procedures, the case was shelved and her body was tossed into the public grave in the Santa Teresa cemetery.

Santa Teresa

At the end of July, the Santa Teresa authorities, in collaboration with Sonora state officials, invited the investigator Albert Kessler to the city.

Calle Javier Paredes

In September, the body of Ana Muñoz Sanjuán was found behind some trash cans on Calle Javier Paredes, between Colonia Félix Gómez and Colonia Centro.

Colonia Rubén Darío

The victim’s name was Ana Muñoz Sanjuán and she was eighteen. She lived on Calle Maestro Caicedo in Colonia Rubén Darío, where she shared a house with three other women.

El Gran Chaparral

She lived on Calle Maestro Caicedo in Colonia Rubén Darío, where she shared a house with three other women, and she worked as a waitress at El Gran Chaparral, a coffee shop in the historic district of Santa Teresa.

Santa Teresa

none of the women reported missing in Santa Teresa fit the description.

Paris, France

He had traveled to Paris (France), London (England), Rome (Italy), where his name was known and those who attended his lectures brought along his book.

London, England

He had traveled to Paris (France), London (England), Rome (Italy), where his name was known and those who attended his lectures brought along his book.

Rome, Italy

He had traveled to Paris (France), London (England), Rome (Italy), where his name was known and those who attended his lectures brought along his book.

Moscow, Russia

He had traveled to Moscow (Russia) and St. Petersburg (Russia) and Warsaw (Poland).

St. Petersburg, Russia

He had traveled to Moscow (Russia) and St. Petersburg (Russia) and Warsaw (Poland).

Warsaw, Poland

He had traveled to Moscow (Russia) and St. Petersburg (Russia) and Warsaw (Poland).

Pemex soccer fields, between the Cananea highway and the railroad

On October 10, near the Pemex soccer fields, between the Cananea highway and the railroad, the body of Leticia Borrego García, eighteen, was found, half buried and in an advanced state of decomposition.

Santa Teresa

The night before Albert Kessler arrived in Santa Teresa, at four in the morning, Sergio González Rodríguez got a call from Azucena Esquivel Plata, reporter and PRI congresswoman.

Tucson

First he flew to Tucson and in Tucson he boarded a small plane that landed at the Santa Teresa airport.

Sonora desert

but the desert suite, since from the terrace, which faced south and west, there was a sweeping view of the Sonora desert in all its grandeur and solitude.

Sonora, Mexico

They’re from Sonora, said Haas, and also from Arizona.

Arizona, USA

They’re from Sonora, said Haas, and also from Arizona.

Santa Teresa

So where do they live? asked one of the reporters. In Santa Teresa, but they have another house in Phoenix.

Phoenix, USA

So where do they live? asked one of the reporters. In Santa Teresa, but they have another house in Phoenix.

Hermosillo, Mexico

They wouldn’t be related to that Uribe from Hermosillo, would they?

Tucson, USA

He also owns property in Phoenix and Tucson.

Sinaloa, Mexico

His brother, Joaquín Uribe, has several hotels in Sonora and Sinaloa and a chain of coffee shops in Santa Teresa.

Colonia Hidalgo

On October 10, the same day Leticia Borrego García’s body was found near the Pemex soccer fields, the body of Lucía Domínguez Roa was found in Colonia Hidalgo, on the sidewalk along Calle Perséfone.

Colonia México

The next morning, however, a distinctly different statement was issued. It said that Lucía Domínguez Roa had worked as a waitress at a bar in Colonia México and that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Colonia Tlalpan

The Mercedes entered Colonia Tlalpan, circled around several times, and finally turned down a cobblestone street of moonlit houses behind high walls, houses that appeared to be uninhabited or in ruins.

Coyoacán

Do you know La Casa Elizondo? No, said Sergio. It’s in Coyoacán, said the congresswoman.

Santa Teresa

On the very day he arrived in Santa Teresa, Kessler left the hotel on his own.

Colonia Madero-Norte

They circled the center of the city, driving through Colonia Madero-Norte and Colonia México and almost to the border, where you could make out El Adobe, which was on American soil.

Colonia México

They circled the center of the city, driving through Colonia Madero-Norte and Colonia México and almost to the border, where you could make out El Adobe, which was on American soil.

El Adobe

They circled the center of the city, driving through Colonia Madero-Norte and Colonia México and almost to the border, where you could make out El Adobe, which was on American soil.

Colonia Madero

Then they went back to Madero-Norte and cruised the streets of Colonia Madero and Colonia Reforma.

Colonia Reforma

Then they went back to Madero-Norte and cruised the streets of Colonia Madero and Colonia Reforma.

Colonia Félix Gómez

The driver headed back across Colonia Centro and set off in the direction of Colonia Félix Gómez, where he turned onto Avenida Carranza and drove through Colonia Veracruz, Colonia Carranza, and Colonia Morelos.

Avenida Carranza

The driver headed back across Colonia Centro and set off in the direction of Colonia Félix Gómez, where he turned onto Avenida Carranza and drove through Colonia Veracruz, Colonia Carranza, and Colonia Morelos.

Colonia Veracruz

The driver headed back across Colonia Centro and set off in the direction of Colonia Félix Gómez, where he turned onto Avenida Carranza and drove through Colonia Veracruz, Colonia Carranza, and Colonia Morelos.

Colonia Carranza

The driver headed back across Colonia Centro and set off in the direction of Colonia Félix Gómez, where he turned onto Avenida Carranza and drove through Colonia Veracruz, Colonia Carranza, and Colonia Morelos.

Colonia Morelos

The driver headed back across Colonia Centro and set off in the direction of Colonia Félix Gómez, where he turned onto Avenida Carranza and drove through Colonia Veracruz, Colonia Carranza, and Colonia Morelos.

Arsenio Farrell industrial park

At the edge of the dirt plaza, the road split, each branch in turn splitting in two. The six roads were paved and met at Arsenio Farrell industrial park.

General Sepúlveda industrial park

South, past the distant shacks, he spotted an island of light and knew right away that it was another industrial park. He asked the driver what it was called. The driver got out and looked for a while in the direction Kessler had pointed. That must be General Sepúlveda industrial park, he said.

Kansas

It had been a while since Kessler saw such a beautiful sunset. The colors swirled in the evening sky and he was reminded of a sunset he had seen many years ago in Kansas.

Santa Teresa penitentiary

If it had been up to her, everyone around her, the shadowy figures on the edges of the photograph, would have disappeared instantly, and so would the room, the prison, jailers and jailed, the hundred-year-old walls of the Santa Teresa penitentiary, and all that was left would be a crater, and in the crater there would be only silence and the vague presence of the lawyer and Haas, chained in the depths.

Santa Teresa

Do you want me to answer as a resident of Santa Teresa or as a forensic scientist? asked Garibay in return.

Cerro La Asunción

At the beginning of November, a group of hikers from a Santa Teresa private school found the remains of a woman on the steepest side of Cerro La Asunción, also known as Cerro Dávila.

Santa Teresa hospital

With the help of the hikers, who were still there, the inspector was taken to a Santa Teresa hospital.

Coyoacán

she sold their house in Coyoacán and they went to live in an apartment in Colonia Roma

Colonia Roma

she sold their house in Coyoacán and they went to live in an apartment in Colonia Roma

New York

Then they left the Roma apartment and moved to New York

Cerro Estrella

That same day Kessler was at Cerro Estrella and he walked around Colonia Estrella and Colonia Hidalgo and explored the area along the Pueblo Azul highway

Colonia Estrella

That same day Kessler was at Cerro Estrella and he walked around Colonia Estrella and Colonia Hidalgo and explored the area along the Pueblo Azul highway

Colonia Hidalgo

That same day Kessler was at Cerro Estrella and he walked around Colonia Estrella and Colonia Hidalgo and explored the area along the Pueblo Azul highway

Pueblo Azul highway

That same day Kessler was at Cerro Estrella and he walked around Colonia Estrella and Colonia Hidalgo and explored the area along the Pueblo Azul highway

Colonia México

and then he wanted to see the neighborhoods along the border, Colonia México, next to El Adobe, at which point you were back in the United States

El Adobe

and then he wanted to see the neighborhoods along the border, Colonia México, next to El Adobe, at which point you were back in the United States

Avenida General Sepúlveda

and then he made his entourage turn south along Avenida General Sepúlveda and the Cananea highway

Cananea highway

and then he made his entourage turn south along Avenida General Sepúlveda and the Cananea highway

Colonia La Vistosa

where they took a detour into Colonia La Vistosa, a place the police almost never ventured

Colonia Kino

as if the absence of police in Colonia La Vistosa and Colonia Kino and Colonia Remedios Mayor was a shameful stain

Colonia Remedios Mayor

as if the absence of police in Colonia La Vistosa and Colonia Kino and Colonia Remedios Mayor was a shameful stain

El Chile

and told the driver to take him to the illegal dump El Chile, the biggest illegal dump in Santa Teresa

Santa Teresa

and told the driver to take him to the illegal dump El Chile, the biggest illegal dump in Santa Teresa

Colonia San Bartolomé

On November 16, the body of another woman was found on the back lot of the Kusai maquiladora, in Colonia San Bartolomé.

Avenida Carranza

Rosario Marquina, nineteen, who disappeared on November 12 while she was out dancing at Salón Montana, on Avenida Carranza

Colonia Veracruz

not far from Colonia Veracruz, where they lived

New York, USA

She tried to be a theater actress in New York, a movie actress in Los Angeles, tried to be a model in Paris, a photographer in London, a translator in Spain.

Los Angeles, USA

She tried to be a theater actress in New York, a movie actress in Los Angeles, tried to be a model in Paris, a photographer in London, a translator in Spain.

Paris, France

She tried to be a theater actress in New York, a movie actress in Los Angeles, tried to be a model in Paris, a photographer in London, a translator in Spain.

London, UK

She tried to be a theater actress in New York, a movie actress in Los Angeles, tried to be a model in Paris, a photographer in London, a translator in Spain.

Cayman Islands

dealers fly off one day to the Cayman Islands

Spain

She tried to be a theater actress in New York, a movie actress in Los Angeles, tried to be a model in Paris, a photographer in London, a translator in Spain.

Mexico City, Mexico

It was the perfect moment to return to Mexico. In Mexico City it would be easy for her to find work.

Colonia Kino, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

La Vistosa, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Remedios Mayor, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

La Preciada, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Colonia Las Flores, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Colonia Plata, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Álamos, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Lomas del Toro, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Avenida Rubén Darío, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Avenida Carranza, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Colonia San Bartolomé, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Ciudad Nueva, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Colonia Las Rositas, Mexico

Colonia Kino, La Vistosa, Remedios Mayor, and La Preciada to the southeast, Colonia Las Flores, Colonia Plata, Álamos, Lomas del Toro to the west, the neighborhoods near the industrial parks and along both sides of Avenida Rubén Darío and Avenida Carranza like a double spinal cord, and Colonia San Bartolomé, Guadalupe Victoria, Ciudad Nueva, Colonia Las Rositas to the northeast.

Santa Teresa

When the reporters left the Santa Teresa penitentiary, the lawyer laid her head on the table and began to sob very softly...

Calle Sucre in Colonia Rubén Darío

On November 25, the body of María Elena Torres, thirty-two, was found in her house on Calle Sucre in Colonia Rubén Darío.

Santa Teresa

Two days earlier, on November 23, there had been a march of women across Santa Teresa, from the university to city hall, protesting the killings of women and the climate of impunity.

Hermosillo

The case was assigned to Inspector Luis Villaseñor, recently arrived from Hermosillo...

Colonia La Vistosa

This Escobar lived in Colonia La Vistosa and had no known occupation.

El Chile, the illegal dump

The three men worked picking through the trash at El Chile, the illegal dump.

Mexico

The history of Mexico wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

Santa Teresa

Albert Kessler’s first lecture at the University of Santa Teresa was a popular success

Mexico City

had moved to Mexico City, where they were studying at one of the universities there

Colonia Madero

a cheap restaurant in Colonia Madero where the reporter from La Raza was eating

Santa Teresa, Sonora

Three months later, Kelly disappeared in Santa Teresa, Sonora.

Hermosillo

Kelly had left for the airport the day after the party, to catch the Santa Teresa–Hermosillo flight.

Mexico City

Kelly had left for the airport the day after the party, to catch the Santa Teresa–Hermosillo flight, and then she had planned to fly from Hermosillo to Mexico City.

Los Angeles

I imagined her in Los Angeles or San Francisco, two perfect cities for lovers looking to have a good time and not attract attention.

San Francisco

I imagined her in Los Angeles or San Francisco, two perfect cities for lovers looking to have a good time and not attract attention.

El Rostro Pálido

we agreed to meet at El Rostro Pálido, a fashionable coffee shop

Santa Teresa

according to his sources, laundered money for the Santa Teresa cartel, which was like saying the Sonora cartel.

Sonora

according to his sources, laundered money for the Santa Teresa cartel, which was like saying the Sonora cartel.

Hermosillo

The next day, first thing, after spending a sleepless night, I got on a plane to Hermosillo and then another to Santa Teresa.

Santa Teresa

The next day, first thing, after spending a sleepless night, I got on a plane to Hermosillo and then another to Santa Teresa.

Tubac, Arizona

Hernández Mercado had probably gone completely out of his head and now he might be wandering one of the state parks, Tubac or Patagonia Lake, eating berries and talking to himself.

Patagonia Lake, Arizona

Hernández Mercado had probably gone completely out of his head and now he might be wandering one of the state parks, Tubac or Patagonia Lake, eating berries and talking to himself.

Green Valley, Arizona

First she was in Green Valley, at the offices of La Raza, and she talked to the editor, another man who looked like a farmworker, and to the reporter who had written up Hernández Mercado’s disappearance.

Sonoita, Arizona

Then she went to Sonoita with the boy. Before they visited the sheriff’s office they stopped at Hernández Mercado’s house.

California, USA

The sheriff told her that Hernández Mercado was probably in California by now.

Casas Negras highway, Arizona

On December 10, some workers at the ranch La Perdición informed the police of the discovery of some bones at the edge of the ranch, around mile fifteen of the Casas Negras highway.

Santa Teresa

In total, I spent two nights in Santa Teresa, staying at the Hotel México...

Mexico City

The first thing I did when I got to Mexico City was go to see a friend who had worked for the Mexico City attorney general’s office...

Hermosillo

I also read that between 1990 and 1994 Kelly had flown at least ten times to Hermosillo...

Acapulco

There were names, people from Mexico City, parties in Acapulco, Mazatlán, Oaxaca...

Mazatlán

There were names, people from Mexico City, parties in Acapulco, Mazatlán, Oaxaca...

Oaxaca

There were names, people from Mexico City, parties in Acapulco, Mazatlán, Oaxaca...

Santa Teresa

I want you to go to Santa Teresa and sniff around.

Seattle, United States

He went off to the United States, to a clinic in Seattle, where he held out for three months and then he died.

Colonia Nápoles

I visited him only once, he lived alone in an apartment in Colonia Nápoles.

Baltic

Laminaria digitata is native to cold waters like the Baltic, the North Sea, and the Atlantic.

North Sea

Laminaria digitata is native to cold waters like the Baltic, the North Sea, and the Atlantic.

Atlantic

Laminaria digitata is native to cold waters like the Baltic, the North Sea, and the Atlantic.

Mediterranean

It was a warm-water species found from the southern coasts of Great Britain to the Mediterranean.

English Channel

It grew in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the English Channel, and the North Sea.

North Sea

It grew in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the English Channel, and the North Sea.

Village of Red Men

Sometimes he would walk east out of town, along a dirt road through the forest, and he would come to the Village of Red Men, where all they did was sell peat.

Village of Blue Women

If he walked farther east, there was the Village of Blue Women, in the middle of a lake that dried up in the summer.

Town of the Fat

Beyond the Village of Blue Women was the Town of the Fat. It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat.

Egg Village

On other occasions his steps took him west, and he walked down the main street of Egg Village, which each year was farther and farther from the rocks.

Pig Village

It wasn’t far from Egg Village to Pig Village, a village he imagined his father never visited, where there were many pigstys and the happiest herds of pigs for miles around.

Town of Chattering Girls

And farther on was the Town of Chattering Girls, girls who went to parties and dances in even bigger towns whose names the young Hans Reiter heard and immediately forgot.

Berlin

The first time was during the summer and he was saved by a young tourist from Berlin who was spending his holidays in the Town of Chattering Girls.

Prussia

and for three or four seconds the island of Prussia seemed to rise from the depths.

Moscow to Madrid

He believed in the intrinsic goodness of humankind, he claimed that a person who was pure of heart could walk from Moscow to Madrid without being accosted by anyone.

Village of Blue Women

The second time young Hans Reiter almost drowned was in winter, when he went with some fishermen to cast nets across from the Village of Blue Women.

Berlin

And he wondered: should I return to Berlin, should I take my doctor more seriously, should I embark on a course of self-examination?

Town of Chattering Girls

At twelve Hans had begun to attend a school in the Town of Chattering Girls.

Stettin

helper to a farmer who traveled to Stettin to sell his vegetables

Berlin

the baron, who rarely visited the country house, busy as he was with his affairs in Berlin and Paris

Paris

the baron, who rarely visited the country house, busy as he was with his affairs in Berlin and Paris

south of France

a painter who had settled in the south of France, despised by the baron

Town of Chattering Girls

cart drawn by a draft horse that in such cases usually conveyed him to the train station in the Town of Chattering Girls

Pig Village

One, the longest, passed Pig Village and Egg Village and occasionally ran along the rocks and the sea

Egg Village

One, the longest, passed Pig Village and Egg Village and occasionally ran along the rocks and the sea

Berlin, Germany

Halder talked about his life, his dead mother, his uncle the baron, his only cousin (that unattainable and headstrong girl), about the temptations of Berlin, a city he loved but that also caused him untold suffering, at times unbearably fierce, about the state of his nerves, always near the breaking point.

France

About his father, the painter who lived in France, Halder never spoke, but at the same time he liked to hear about other people’s parents.

Berlin, Germany

But he didn’t like alcohol, or he didn’t like it any more than food, and when his team was stationed near Berlin he gave his notice and headed off.

Kutno

The first real battle in which Reiter took part was on the outskirts of Kutno, where the Poles were few and poorly armed but showed no inclination to surrender.

Maginot Line

From October 1939 to June 1940 they didn’t budge. Ahead was the Maginot Line, though they couldn’t see it from where they lay hidden in forests and orchards.

Baltic

He saw the one-legged man, wrapped in his old military cloak, staring out at the Baltic and wondering where the island of Prussia had hidden itself.

Munich

The doctor, a tiredlooking man from Munich, examined him and said that Gustav had experienced an episode of auditory schizophrenia.

Somme

For the 79th Infantry Division there was nothing epic about the war on the western front. In June, after the Somme offensive, they crossed the Maginot Line with few surprises and participated in the siege of a few thousand French soldiers near Nancy.

Normandy

Then the division was quartered in Normandy.

Soviet frontier

Some troops set up camp near the Soviet frontier, others near the new border with Hungary.

Hungary

Some troops set up camp near the Soviet frontier, others near the new border with Hungary.

Carpathians

Hans’s battalion was stationed in the Carpathians.

Bucharest

The headquarters of the division...was located in Bucharest.

Romania

For the first few weeks of his stay in Romania all he saw were soldiers from his own battalion.

Dracula's castle

And what are you doing here, at Dracula’s castle?” asked the baroness.

Heart of Autumn forest, outside Potsdam

the duel took place in the Heart of Autumn forest, outside Potsdam, a place that she, the Baroness Von Zumpe, had visited many years later

Paris, France

Shortly afterward Halder ran away with my father’s sister. For a while they lived in Paris and then in the south of France

south of France

Shortly afterward Halder ran away with my father’s sister. For a while they lived in Paris and then in the south of France

Berlin, Germany

Then they got married and settled in Berlin, or so I heard.

Romania

those landscapes could be seen anywhere in Romania

Bucharest, Romania

a laugh that in Bucharest’s most fashionable circles was described

Transylvania, Romania

had come to live with some of his loyal retainers in Transylvania

Berlin, Germany

the girl’s sisters and the city of Berlin and world peace and the children of the world

Tenochtitlán, Mexico

the Aztecs, those Aztecs,” said the girl, “the ones who lived in Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco, Mexico

the Aztecs, those Aztecs,” said the girl, “the ones who lived in Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco

Geneva, Switzerland

I imagine those cities to be like Geneva and Montreux. Once I was with my family on holiday in Switzerland.

Montreux, Switzerland

I imagine those cities to be like Geneva and Montreux. Once I was with my family on holiday in Switzerland.

Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Lake Geneva is marvelous in summer, although there are perhaps too many mosquitoes.

Lausanne, Switzerland

there are many towns on the lake, like Lausanne, which is bigger than Montreux

Vevey, Switzerland

there are many towns on the lake, like Lausanne, which is bigger than Montreux, or Vevey, or Evian.

Evian, France

there are many towns on the lake, like Lausanne, which is bigger than Montreux, or Vevey, or Evian.

Paris, France

“He lives in Paris,” said the girl with a sigh. “I don’t have the address.”

Bessarabia

they crossed the Prut and fought and then they fought some more on the steppes and hills of Bessarabia

Odessa

they crossed the Dniester and came to the outskirts of Odessa

Bug River

then they crossed the Bug and kept advancing

Dnieper River

After the Bug, the division crossed the Dnieper

Crimean peninsula

and forged into the Crimean peninsula

Perekop

Reiter fought in Perekop and several villages near Perekop

Chornomorske

During the battle for Chornomorske, in which the 310th Regiment and especially Reiter’s battalion played an important role

Kirovske

the first during an attack on a brick fortification on the outskirts of Kirovske

Chernishove

at the junction of Chernishove, Kirovske, and Chornomorske

Chornomorske

The second time he almost died was during the capture of Chornomorske.

Evpatoria

The two main regiments of the 79th Division led the attack after all the divisional artillery was concentrated near the piers, at the head of the road that linked Chornomorske with Evpatoria, Frunze, Inkerman, and Sevastopol, a road that lacked significant geographic landmarks.

Frunze

The two main regiments of the 79th Division led the attack after all the divisional artillery was concentrated near the piers, at the head of the road that linked Chornomorske with Evpatoria, Frunze, Inkerman, and Sevastopol, a road that lacked significant geographic landmarks.

Inkerman

The two main regiments of the 79th Division led the attack after all the divisional artillery was concentrated near the piers, at the head of the road that linked Chornomorske with Evpatoria, Frunze, Inkerman, and Sevastopol, a road that lacked significant geographic landmarks.

Sevastopol

The two main regiments of the 79th Division led the attack after all the divisional artillery was concentrated near the piers, at the head of the road that linked Chornomorske with Evpatoria, Frunze, Inkerman, and Sevastopol, a road that lacked significant geographic landmarks.

Sevastopol

The third time he almost died was weeks later, during the attack on Sevastopol.

Novoselivske

Two weeks later Reiter received the Iron Cross. A colonel presented it to him in the field hospital at Novoselivske.

Mykolaivka

The colonel shook Reiter’s hand, told him there had been outstanding reports on his actions in Chornomorske and Mykolaivka, and then left.

Krivoy Rog, Ukraine

The wound in his chest healed well and soon he was transferred from the Crimean peninsula to Krivoy Rog, in Ukraine, where there was a bigger hospital, and his throat was operated on again.

Moscow, Russia

The trip to Moscow was unforgettable.

Kostekino, near the Dnieper

And Ansky said Kostekino, near the Dnieper.

Warsaw, Poland

and he died fifty miles from Warsaw.

Siberia, Russia

The next three years he spent traveling. He was in Siberia

Norilsk, Russia

and at the lead mines of Norilsk

Tunguska Basin, Russia

and he crossed the Tunguska Basin escorting engineers

Omsk, Russia

engineers from Omsk who were looking for coal deposits

Yakutsk, Russia

and he was in Yakutsk

Lena River, Russia

and he traveled up the Lena to the Arctic Ocean

New Siberian Islands, Russia

to the New Siberian Islands where two of the engineers went mad

Okhotsk Sea, Russia

and then he was at the Okhotsk Sea with a supply detail

Vladivostok, Russia

and then he was in a hospital in Vladivostok

Amur, Russia

and then in Amur

Lake Baikal, Russia

and then he saw the shores of Lake Baikal

Irkutsk, Russia

and the city of Irkutsk

Kazakhstan

and finally he chased bandits in Kazakhstan

Moscow, Russia

He participated in the creation of magazines (in which none of his writing ever appeared) in Moscow, Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev, Rostov.

Leningrad, Russia

He participated in the creation of magazines (in which none of his writing ever appeared) in Moscow, Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev, Rostov.

Smolensk, Russia

He participated in the creation of magazines (in which none of his writing ever appeared) in Moscow, Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev, Rostov.

Kiev, Ukraine

He participated in the creation of magazines (in which none of his writing ever appeared) in Moscow, Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev, Rostov.

Rostov, Russia

He participated in the creation of magazines (in which none of his writing ever appeared) in Moscow, Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev, Rostov.

Crimea

And who lived most of the time in the Crimea and whom Marya Zamyatina described as if he were Jesus Christ reincarnated.

New York, USA

When he goes to the window he gazes out in awe at the urban landscape of New York.

Kansas City

They find her in Kansas City.

Moscow

In the next chapter, the boy is no longer a boy but a young man of twenty-five working at a Moscow newspaper where he has become the star reporter.

Peking

The trip, he is warned, is extremely difficult, and once he reaches Peking, the situation may be dangerous, since there are lots of people who don’t want any statement by the Chinese leader to get out.

New York

It tells him that if he closes his eyes he’ll see the streets of New York again, he’ll walk again toward the hypnotist’s house, where she sits waiting for him on a chair in the dark.

Yalta

He spent his holidays in Yalta, along with other equally famous colleagues.

Moscow, Russia

he shut himself up in his Moscow room again and stacked up reams of paper

Siberia, Russia

a radio project meant to cover all of Europe and extend to the very edge of Siberia

University of Moscow

And Nadja Yurenieva saw Ansky and got up discreetly and left the hall where the bad Soviet poet... and she went out into the streets of Moscow, followed by Ansky...

Moscow, Russia

And Nadja Yurenieva saw Ansky and got up discreetly and left the hall where the bad Soviet poet... and she went out into the streets of Moscow, followed by Ansky...

Vitebsk, Belarus

Never before had Ansky better understood or delighted more in suprematism, Kazimir Malevich’s invention, nor the first tenet of Malevich’s declaration of independence signed in Vitebsk on November 5, 1920...

Gorky's burial

I met her at Gorky’s burial. She and two other thugs slung me out.

Kamchatka peninsula

perhaps because God was never lost on the Kamchatka peninsula, cold and hungry, as he was.

Moscow

He talks about the drug addicts of Moscow.

Moscow

He talks about Yuri Piatakov, assassinated in 1937, after the second Moscow Trial.

Moscow

And he talks about his adventures in different houses in Moscow, with friends who presumably helped him.

Paris

The ashes of The Return from the Conference float not only over Paris, reads Reiter with tears in his eyes.

Rome

The ashes of The Return from the Conference float not only over Paris, reads Reiter with tears in his eyes, tears that sting and rouse him, but also over Moscow and Rome and Berlin.

Berlin

The ashes of The Return from the Conference float not only over Paris, reads Reiter with tears in his eyes, tears that sting and rouse him, but also over Moscow and Rome and Berlin.

Place Vendôme

The monument to Napoleon in the Place Vendôme, the monument plain and simple in the Place Vendôme, the Vendôme column in the Place Vendôme.

Paris

In any case, the public office that Courbet held after the fall of Napoleon III made him responsible for the protection of the monuments of Paris.

Switzerland

Courbet left for Switzerland, where he died in 1877 at the age of fifty-eight.

Borneo

What a nice pair we would’ve made in Borneo, writes Ansky with irony.

Moscow

The occasion was an informal reception for a group of Soviet anthropologists who had just returned to Moscow.

Paris

Their language, however, wasn’t crude like that of the garbagemen of Moscow or Paris, nor were they big like them nor did they possess their muscular torsos nor did they have the gaze of those men, the gaze of dealers in shit, but rather they were short and fine boned, and they spoke in soft coos, like birds, and they did their best not to brush against the strangers and their conception of time had nothing to do with the Frenchmen’s conception of time.

Bornean coast

For many days, in the mountains and later at the bar in a town on the Bornean coast, the anthropologists racked their brains to explain what could have suddenly plunged a peaceful tribe into violence or terror.

Crimea

One night he dreamed he was back in Crimea.

Kerch, Crimea

He was in Crimea. He was in Kerch.

Kuban River

He was on the banks of the Kuban and in the streets of Krasnodar.

Krasnodar, Russia

He was on the banks of the Kuban and in the streets of Krasnodar.

Caucasus

He traveled through the Caucasus to Budennovsk and he crossed the Kalmuk Steppe with his battalion.

Budennovsk, Russia

He traveled through the Caucasus to Budennovsk and he crossed the Kalmuk Steppe with his battalion.

Kalmuk Steppe

He traveled through the Caucasus to Budennovsk and he crossed the Kalmuk Steppe with his battalion.

Tuapse, Russia

In any case, Sergeant Lemke was gravely wounded as they tried vainly to fight their way through to Tuapse and he was replaced by Sergeant Bublitz.

Elista, Russia

Reiter’s division, which was part of the 17th Army now, not the 11th, retreated from Elista to Proletarskaya and then followed the Manych River up to Rostov.

Proletarskaya, Russia

Reiter’s division, which was part of the 17th Army now, not the 11th, retreated from Elista to Proletarskaya and then followed the Manych River up to Rostov.

Manych River

Reiter’s division, which was part of the 17th Army now, not the 11th, retreated from Elista to Proletarskaya and then followed the Manych River up to Rostov.

Rostov, Russia

Reiter’s division, which was part of the 17th Army now, not the 11th, retreated from Elista to Proletarskaya and then followed the Manych River up to Rostov.

Mius River

And then it kept retreating west, to the Mius River, where a new front line was established.

Baltic Sea

Sometimes he remembered the seaweed forests of the Baltic and smiled.

Kostekino

One day, without knowing how, Reiter found himself back in Kostekino.

Kostekino

One night, three days after he had come to Kostekino, he dreamed that the Russians had taken the village and to escape them he had plunged into the stream, Sweet Spring, and swum until he came to the Dnieper...

Dnieper

One night, three days after he had come to Kostekino, he dreamed that the Russians had taken the village and to escape them he had plunged into the stream, Sweet Spring, and swum until he came to the Dnieper...

Black Sea

One morning, at last, the Dnieper flowed into the Black Sea, where it ceased to exist or was transformed, and Reiter approached the shore of the river or the sea with shaky steps...

Pervomaysk

Several days later he found a column from his division and returned to the monotony of holding a bit of ground and retreating, until they were destroyed by the Soviets at the Bug, west of Pervomaysk...

Jassy

In 1944, as they headed to Jassy with a Russian motorized brigade on their heels, Reiter and the other soldiers in his battalion saw a blue dust cloud rising toward the midday sky.

Carpathians

It was General Entrescu, the man who had slept with the Baroness Von Zumpe in the castle in the Carpathians and whom he and Wilke had spied on from the secret passageway.

Greece

They were sending me a trainload of Greek Jews.

Chelmno

I phoned a friend, who put me in touch with a man who ran a camp for Jews near Chelmno.

Leipzig

I addressed the matter of a shipment of potatoes that had gotten lost somewhere between the region under my oversight and the city of Leipzig, which was its final destination.

Cologne, Germany

Before he began working at the bar Reiter had slept with other girls, at the Cologne or Solingen train stations or in Remscheid or Wuppertal, factory workers and peasants who liked it when men (so long as they looked healthy) came in their mouths.

Solingen, Germany

Before he began working at the bar Reiter had slept with other girls, at the Cologne or Solingen train stations or in Remscheid or Wuppertal, factory workers and peasants who liked it when men (so long as they looked healthy) came in their mouths.

Remscheid, Germany

Before he began working at the bar Reiter had slept with other girls, at the Cologne or Solingen train stations or in Remscheid or Wuppertal, factory workers and peasants who liked it when men (so long as they looked healthy) came in their mouths.

Wuppertal, Germany

Before he began working at the bar Reiter had slept with other girls, at the Cologne or Solingen train stations or in Remscheid or Wuppertal, factory workers and peasants who liked it when men (so long as they looked healthy) came in their mouths.

Cologne

One day Reiter told them that the most interesting part of Cologne was the garret where they lived, and Ingeborg’s sisters laughed.

Berlin

a number of psychiatrists and neurologists had visited her sister in Berlin and the general diagnosis was insanity.

Prussia

about the seas of Prussia and the rivers of Russia and the benevolent monsters that dwell in the deep waters off the Crimean coast

Russia

about the seas of Prussia and the rivers of Russia and the benevolent monsters that dwell in the deep waters off the Crimean coast

Crimean coast

about the seas of Prussia and the rivers of Russia and the benevolent monsters that dwell in the deep waters off the Crimean coast

Westerwald

Ingeborg’s mother and sisters decided to return to the town in the Westerwald where the family had settled

Italy

His military record included participation in various battles in different theaters of operations, especially in Italy and Normandy.

Normandy

His military record included participation in various battles in different theaters of operations, especially in Italy and Normandy.

Germany

There are many, so many they blacken the sky, but their targets are surely in some industrial region of Germany.

Cologne

Upon insisting, Archimboldi got the address of Bittner’s new office, on the outskirts of Cologne.

Antwerp

The paratroopers informed him that Mickey Bittner was in Antwerp just then closing a deal on a shipment of bananas.

Hamburg, Germany

When Bubis returned to Hamburg, in September 1945, Mrs. Gottlieb was living in the direst poverty, and Bubis, who by then had lost his wife, brought her to live with him.

London, England

That was a happy night for Mr. Bubis and Mrs. Gottlieb, although supper ended with the story of Mr. Bubis’s exile and Mrs. Bubis’s death, and with a flood of tears for Mrs. Bubis’s lonely grave in London’s Jewish cemetery.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mrs. Marianne Gottlieb, Bubis’s most faithful employee, to the extent, or so it was said, that she had driven the car that carried the publisher and his wife to the Dutch border, from where they had continued on to Amsterdam after the car was searched by the border police, who didn’t find anything.

New York, United States

Similarly, when Tacitus talked about relinquishing Italy, Bubis thought about the United States, New York in particular, where he had received several highly respectable offers of work at publishing houses in the Big Apple.

Israel

and when Tacitus mentioned Asia and Africa, Bubis was put in mind of the emerging state of Israel, where he was sure there were all sorts of things he could do, in the publishing field, of course, not to mention that it was home to many of his old friends, whom he would have liked to see again.

Germany

And yet he had chosen Germany, cheerless to every beholder and cultivator.

Hamburg, Germany

Germany was home to his publishing house or to the idea he had of a publishing house, a German publishing house, a publishing house with its headquarters in Hamburg.

Iserlohn, Germany

until at last Mr. Bubis rose and shook hands with the elderly owner of, say, Iserlohn.

Bochum, Germany

and then went off to Bochum, to visit the elderly owner of Bochum.

Mannheim, Germany

Mr. Bubis was in Mannheim, in the American zone, when he met a young refugee.

Hamburg, Germany

At the publishing house’s opening ceremony, with all of Hamburg’s officials and artists and politicians invited.

Hamburg, Germany

When Archimboldi arrived in Hamburg, the publishing house hadn’t yet attained the high level that Mr. Bubis had set as a second goal.

Cologne, Germany

“I’m not going to any hotel,” said Archimboldi, “I’m going back to Cologne. Please let me have my manuscript.”

Hamburg, Germany

Some of the streets of Hamburg, Archimboldi could see as they walked, were in a worse state than the most devastated streets of Cologne, although in Hamburg he had the impression that the reconstruction efforts were more in earnest.

Carpathians

they told each other some of the things that had happened since their last meeting in the Carpathians.

Crimea

Without going into detail, Archimboldi told her about the war, about Crimea, about the Kuban and the great rivers of the Soviet Union, about the winters and the months he spent unable to speak, and somehow, obliquely, he conjured up Ansky, though he never mentioned his name.

Kuban, Soviet Union

Without going into detail, Archimboldi told her about the war, about Crimea, about the Kuban and the great rivers of the Soviet Union, about the winters and the months he spent unable to speak, and somehow, obliquely, he conjured up Ansky, though he never mentioned his name.

Bulgaria

The baroness, meanwhile, as if to counterbalance Archimboldi’s forced travels, told him about her own journeys, all planned and desired and therefore happy, exotic trips to Bulgaria and Turkey and Montenegro and receptions at the German embassies of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and she confessed that sometimes she tried to repent of the good times she’d had, but no matter how strongly she rejected her hedonistic behavior on an intellectual or perhaps more accurately a moral level, the truth was that when she thought back on those days she still felt a shiver of pleasure.

Turkey

The baroness, meanwhile, as if to counterbalance Archimboldi’s forced travels, told him about her own journeys, all planned and desired and therefore happy, exotic trips to Bulgaria and Turkey and Montenegro and receptions at the German embassies of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and she confessed that sometimes she tried to repent of the good times she’d had, but no matter how strongly she rejected her hedonistic behavior on an intellectual or perhaps more accurately a moral level, the truth was that when she thought back on those days she still felt a shiver of pleasure.

Montenegro

The baroness, meanwhile, as if to counterbalance Archimboldi’s forced travels, told him about her own journeys, all planned and desired and therefore happy, exotic trips to Bulgaria and Turkey and Montenegro and receptions at the German embassies of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and she confessed that sometimes she tried to repent of the good times she’d had, but no matter how strongly she rejected her hedonistic behavior on an intellectual or perhaps more accurately a moral level, the truth was that when she thought back on those days she still felt a shiver of pleasure.

Italy

The baroness, meanwhile, as if to counterbalance Archimboldi’s forced travels, told him about her own journeys, all planned and desired and therefore happy, exotic trips to Bulgaria and Turkey and Montenegro and receptions at the German embassies of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and she confessed that sometimes she tried to repent of the good times she’d had, but no matter how strongly she rejected her hedonistic behavior on an intellectual or perhaps more accurately a moral level, the truth was that when she thought back on those days she still felt a shiver of pleasure.

Spain

The baroness, meanwhile, as if to counterbalance Archimboldi’s forced travels, told him about her own journeys, all planned and desired and therefore happy, exotic trips to Bulgaria and Turkey and Montenegro and receptions at the German embassies of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and she confessed that sometimes she tried to repent of the good times she’d had, but no matter how strongly she rejected her hedonistic behavior on an intellectual or perhaps more accurately a moral level, the truth was that when she thought back on those days she still felt a shiver of pleasure.

Portugal

The baroness, meanwhile, as if to counterbalance Archimboldi’s forced travels, told him about her own journeys, all planned and desired and therefore happy, exotic trips to Bulgaria and Turkey and Montenegro and receptions at the German embassies of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and she confessed that sometimes she tried to repent of the good times she’d had, but no matter how strongly she rejected her hedonistic behavior on an intellectual or perhaps more accurately a moral level, the truth was that when she thought back on those days she still felt a shiver of pleasure.

Hamburg, Germany

In all, he spent three days in Hamburg.

Cologne, Germany

So after three very instructive days, Archimboldi returned to Cologne on the night train.

Cologne, Germany

The Cologne Cultural Center paid him for two public readings in two different city bookshops, whose owners, it must be said, knew Mr. Bubis personally.

Oldenburg, Germany

In collaboration with the recently established and somewhat muddled cultural councils of Lower Saxony, the Cologne Cultural Center also organized a series of lectures and readings that began with some pomp and circumstance in Oldenburg.

Frisia, Germany

The tour ended in the fishing hamlets of Frisia, where Archimboldi unexpectedly found the largest crowds, and where very few people left before an event was over.

Frankfurt, Germany

On the contrary, around this time Bubis had to travel to Frankfurt, and while he was there he made a day trip to Mainz to visit the literary critic Lothar Junge.

Mainz, Germany

On the contrary, around this time Bubis had to travel to Frankfurt, and while he was there he made a day trip to Mainz to visit the literary critic Lothar Junge.

Paris, France

In Paris, answered the baroness, and that was the last time the writer’s wife spoke.

Heidelberg, Germany

he dressed in the fashion of the professors of Heidelberg, who never removed their ties except in situations of true intimacy.

Mainz, Germany

Then a young writer from Mainz arrived with his wife, followed by another literary critic from the same paper in Frankfurt where Junge’s reviews were published.

Frankfurt, Germany

Then a young writer from Mainz arrived with his wife, followed by another literary critic from the same paper in Frankfurt where Junge’s reviews were published.