And, in the end - the complex plot of At Night We Walk in Circles comes together

There will be serious spoilers here, so if you're thinking of reading Daniel Alarcon's At Night We walk in Circles but haven't yet I'd say just go do that rather than read this post. So - at the end of section 4 and very close to the end of the novel we at last learn what happened to Nelson, why and how he's disappeared - and I admit I was surprised, but it all makes sense and brings this well-designed and moving novel to a near-conclusion. As we learn, Nelson comes back to the capital city, tries to woo his lost love Ixta, she rejects him to her great sorrow, her current boyfriend - though it's a going-nowhere relationship - and father of the child she's bearing, learns that Nelson has seen her and wanders the city trying to track Nelson down; we also see that N. is very depressed and has not contacted his mother, with whom he's close, and gives weird answers to questions, etc. The boyfriend at last tracks Nelson down at the old theater where he's been staying w/ the 2 others in the theater troupe; he threatens to kill N., but N., bravely, opens the door to him and they walk off together discussing their love and their enmity. The boyfriend is very drunk. After a scuffle in a bar-restaurant, they go out into a pretty bad neighborhood, where they're followed - and then attacked by two assassins sent by Jaime - who's been furious at N. for leaving his mother back in T -- (not sure that I completely believe Jaime would pursue his anger to that extent, but we know he;s a hothead and a thug, and life is cheap in this country, it seems) - they end up killing the boyfriend, as N escapes - but he is later caught and charged with murder and ends up in the prison, Collectors (great name!), which has been the driving force behind this novel, even to the point of the title: everything happened because of Henry's imprisonment, release, desire to take his radical play out to the provinces, to visit the hometown of his cellmate and prison boyfriend - so it completely makes sense that N. will end up there, among the disappeared, and the narrator is apparently trying to tell the story of justice derailed. I suspect part 5, which I'll read tonight, takes place in the prison - or maybe after the imprisonment?