A House Burned -- The Owner -- The Student -- The Battlefield -- Exhumation -- Ashes Fell -- Rumor -- Travelogue -- Natural History -- Bildungsroman -- Revelation -- Decree -- A Future Was Buried -- A Dangerous Question -- The Law That Would Change the World -- Betrayal -- Burials -- And They Were the Eruption -- The Savages -- Sacuchum -- The Guerrillas -- The Politicians -- The Terrorists -- The Defeated -- The Storytellers -- List of Names -- Note on Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments.