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Now I Surrender

A Novel

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Now I Surrender

By: Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer - translator
Narrated by: Thom Rivera
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND LITHUB!

“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, The New York Times

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

Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender 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.

Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. 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. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Political Westerns Latin America Military Mexico
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hard to follow unless the listener pays special attention. ultimately a very satisfying ending

needs careful listen

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I’m pretty terrible at writing cogent audible reviews. That said, I adored this novel and can’t wait to relisten to it. The “stateless” history of the Apache is something I had never heard before, and as a Mexican American struck a chord with me in that my family has roots in some of the places described. The novel is thought provoking on many levels.

Simply amazing.

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Extremely compelling. Here are some extra words to meet the minimum amount of words needed

My favorite novel this year, maybe ever

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As a native born Arizonan, I thoroughly enjoyed the historic journey. I wished for more!

Great Story

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