Introduction: The language of paradise
Unstable affiliations
Why Misha left
Emancipation and emigration
Their First America
Lisa Noemí Milstein
The amauta
Jewish Americanism
Expulsion
Adulthood
Genocide
The national disease
Family life
The need for a new world
The limits of adaptation
The limits of translation
Dialectic of silence
Israel
Larissa and Cinna
Return to Colombia
Marginal survival
My nationality
God's face
Geology of Machu Picchu
Sina and Cinna
Sina Aronsfrau
What's in a name?
The Aronsfrau murder
Envy
Poor Cinna
Author of my days
Bigger smaller
Mesohippus
Rainbow scarab.