Now I Surrender

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A woman's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-US border wars.</b></p><p><i>Now I Surrender</i> is the epic, <b>darkly funny and action-packed story of the legendary Apache warrior Geronimo and how the American West was 'won'.</b></p><p>'Álvaro Enrigue's one of the best we have, and he's not done pushing against conventions' <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b></p><p>'An impassioned anti-imperialist lament, a gripping alt-western' <b><i>TLS</i></b></p><p>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 the trail of a more dramatic abduction.</p><p>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. And in our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.</p><p><i>Now I Surrender</i> 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 - that still sparks in us the thrill of almost unimaginable freedom.</p><p><b>Translated by Natasha Wimmer</b></p><p>'Enrigue is an erudite, charismatic raconteur' <b><i>THE ATLANTIC</i></b></p><p>'A moving and complex love letter to Mexico... a slice of bloody American history with a timely edge' <b><i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781787301467

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

235 x 158 x 46 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd