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"A visionary novelist imagines the fiercely fought end of an epoch of almost unimaginable freedom and 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...

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Main Author: Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Wimmer, Natasha (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: New York, NY : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
Subjects:
Geronimo, > 1829-1909 > Fiction.
Apache Indians > Kings and rulers > Fiction.
Apache Indians > Fiction.
Widows > Fiction.
Kidnapping victims > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction.
Mexican-American Border Region > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Apache Indians > Juvenile fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Juvenile fiction.
Kidnaping victims > Juvenile fiction.
Widows > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:"A visionary novelist imagines the fiercely fought end of an epoch of almost unimaginable freedom and 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. Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, their storylines playing out in multiple eras, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue's most expansive and 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 -- and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Description:"First published in Spain as Alhora me rindo y eso es todo by Editorial Anagrams, Barcelona, in 2018."--Colophon
Physical Description:456 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780593084076
0593084071
Author Notes:Álvaro 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 País , 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 's translations include Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires and Sudden Death and Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and 2666 . She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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