Now I Surrender

A visionary author returns with his most ambitious novel yet, a darkly funny and action-packed retelling of the Apache warrior Geronimo and his peoples' fight for freedom

A radical recasting of the how the American West was 'won', that speaks to our current times, to resist

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. 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 manoeuvre 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.

Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most ambitious 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 of almost unimaginable freedom.