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Álvaro Enrigue is the prize-winning Mexican writer of Now I Surrender, Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature; You Dreamed of Empires; and Sudden Death, among others. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. More about this author >
Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and The Nation. More about this author >
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Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically 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.
