Now I Surrender

Name: Now I Surrender - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9781787301467
Price: 535.00 ZAR
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Alvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer

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About the book

A woman's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-US border wars.

Now I Surrender is the epic, darkly funny and action-packed story of the legendary Apache warrior Geronimo and how the American West was 'won'.

'Álvaro Enrigue's one of the best we have, and he's not done pushing against conventions' NEW YORK TIMES

'An impassioned anti-imperialist lament, a gripping alt-western' TLS

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...

About the Author

Álvaro Enrigue

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

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.