Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface xv
5. Note on Transliteration and Translation xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter one, in which Şānī and his readers save the nightingale 35
8. Chapter two, in which Cavafy is scattered and gathered up and scattered again 68
9. Chapter three, in which witnesses to war tell their truths 116
10. Chapter four, in which displaced books make a place 163
11. Chapter five, in which the script is rewritten 196
12. Afterword 239
13. Notes 245
14. Bibliography 267
15. Index 287
16. translation/transnation 295