Structure and Plot
The book consists of twelve chapters, the first one set exactly a year after the events of and introducing the narrative proper. The following eleven chapters happen in a single day and follow the Consul chronologically, starting early on the morning of the Day of the dead with the return of his wife, Yvonne, who left him the year before, to his violent death at the end of the day.
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