Now I Surrender: A Novel
Now I Surrender: A Novel
by Álvaro Enrigue; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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About the Book
A women's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico–US border war.
Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrenderradically recasts the story of how the West was "won." In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.
Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. It weaves past and present, myth and history, into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty—and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory.
About the Author
Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican writer whose most recent novel is You Dreamed of Empires, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year. A former Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center and at Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies, he has taught at New York University, Princeton University, the University of Maryland, Columbia University, and Hofstra University. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, and El País, among other publications. He lives in New York City.