A celebrated Mexican novelist and essayist whose inventive, genre-blurring fiction blends history, politics, and literary play, Álvaro Enrigue's novels include Hypothermia, Sudden Death (winner of the Herralde Novel Prize, Barcelona Prize, and Poniatowska Prize), and You Dreamed of Empires.
Enrigue comes to Houston with his new novel, Now I Surrender, translated by Natasha Wimmer, a sweeping, multi-layered epic set in the contested borderlands of the 19th‑century U.S.-Mexico frontier. Intertwining the stories of a Mexican woman fleeing a raid, a federale on the trail of cattle rustlers, the pursuit of Apache leader Geronimo, and a contemporary family seeking truth, the novel is part historical fiction, part meta‑narrative on memory and storytelling.
Enrigue will read from Now I Surrender, followed by an on-stage conversation led by a local writer/journalist. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing.
A celebrated Mexican novelist and essayist whose inventive, genre-blurring fiction blends history, politics, and literary play, Álvaro Enrigue's novels include Hypothermia, Sudden Death (winner of the Herralde Novel Prize, Barcelona Prize, and Poniatowska Prize), and You Dreamed of Empires.
Enrigue comes to Houston with his new novel, Now I Surrender, translated by Natasha Wimmer, a sweeping, multi-layered epic set in the contested borderlands of the 19th‑century U.S.-Mexico frontier. Intertwining the stories of a Mexican woman fleeing a raid, a federale on the trail of cattle rustlers, the pursuit of Apache leader Geronimo, and a contemporary family seeking truth, the novel is part historical fiction, part meta‑narrative on memory and storytelling.
Enrigue will read from Now I Surrender, followed by an on-stage conversation led by a local writer/journalist. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing.
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