{"product_id":"now-i-surrender-a-novel-by-alvaro-enrigue-natasha-wimmer","title":"Now I Surrender: A Novel | Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e AND LITHUB!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This gifted Mexican writer … delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry … He’s one of the best we have.” –Dwight Garner,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico–US border wars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Republica, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrchestrated 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. 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