Alvaro Enrigue: Now I Surrender
Award-winning Mexican novelist Alvaro Enrigue presents his new work blending history, identity, and the borders between cultures.
Why we picked this
Enrigue is one of the most inventive novelists working in any language right now -- his books treat the US-Mexico border as a wound in time, not just geography.
Alvaro Enrigue presents Now I Surrender at Politics and Prose, in conversation with Lupita Aquino. Enrigue, whose previous novel You Dreamed of Empires was a New York Times Notable Book, has established himself as one of the most ambitious voices in contemporary Latin American fiction.
His work consistently explores the collision of cultures at the border — not just the geographic border between the US and Mexico, but the borders between languages, histories, and ways of understanding the world. Now I Surrender continues this project, blending historical sweep with intimate human detail.
This is a rare DC appearance by a writer whose work demands attention from anyone interested in how fiction can hold the complexity of the Americas. Livestream available.