Now I Surrender
Published on 5. March 2026
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-1-78730-146-7 (ISBN)
Description
Once I moved like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.
A darkly funny and action-packed radical recasting of how the American West was 'won',
from the visionary author of Guardian and New York Times Book of the Year You Dreamed of Empires
In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a Mexican woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. Meanwhile, a lieutenant colonel of the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, will soon discover 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 manoeuvre Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. And in our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.
Now I Surrender is Alvaro Enrigue's most impassioned novel yet. Part epic, part alt-Western, it weaves past and present, myth and history, into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty - that still sparks in us the thrill of almost unimaginable freedom.
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
**Praise for Alvaro Enrigue's fiction**
'Endlessly inventive' GUARDIAN
'Brilliantly original' SALMAN RUSHDIE
'Glorious' NEW YORK TIMES
'Wildly funny' LAUREN GROFF
'I was so impressed that I'm on my second reread' TORREY PETERS
'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Brain spinning' MARLON JAMES
A darkly funny and action-packed radical recasting of how the American West was 'won',
from the visionary author of Guardian and New York Times Book of the Year You Dreamed of Empires
In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a Mexican woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. Meanwhile, a lieutenant colonel of the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, will soon discover 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 manoeuvre Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. And in our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.
Now I Surrender is Alvaro Enrigue's most impassioned novel yet. Part epic, part alt-Western, it weaves past and present, myth and history, into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty - that still sparks in us the thrill of almost unimaginable freedom.
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
**Praise for Alvaro Enrigue's fiction**
'Endlessly inventive' GUARDIAN
'Brilliantly original' SALMAN RUSHDIE
'Glorious' NEW YORK TIMES
'Wildly funny' LAUREN GROFF
'I was so impressed that I'm on my second reread' TORREY PETERS
'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Brain spinning' MARLON JAMES
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 46 mm
Weight
694 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78730-146-7 (9781787301467)
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Persons
Alvaro Enrigue (Author)
Alvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is You Dreamed of Empires. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, El Pais, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.
Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Natasha Wimmer's translations include Alvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires and Sudden Death and Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and 2666. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Alvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is You Dreamed of Empires. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, El Pais, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.
Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Natasha Wimmer's translations include Alvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires and Sudden Death and Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and 2666. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.