Part One
I Lives, maps and special documents
II Ghost-writing: an imaginary paradise or a journey into the unknown?
III Journalists at the tobacconist’s
IV The imperial city and the emerald bars
V Boris, Samir and Farida Reuben’s letters
Part Two
VI The keeper of flocks
VII The protected man in the tobacconist’s
VIII Tobacco keeper
Part Three
IX Murder revealed, a life on the periphery and strange lands
A Note on the Translator