Alvaro Enrigue

• May-2013
• / Literary

Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rus...

• Feb-2016
• / Historical

A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of...

• Jul-2023
• / Literary

Born under strange circumstances to a high-society teenager and a pentagenarian entrepreneur, Jerónimo Rodriguez Loera is off to an inauspicious start—then things get worse. Through an assemblage of records, letters, and firsthand testimon...

• Jan-2024
• / Literary

"Enrigue’s genius lies in his ability to bring readers close to its tangled knot of priests, mercenaries, warriors and princesses while adding a pinch of biting humor." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times“Riotously entertaining... A&#x...

• Mar-2026
• / Historical

A woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexicoâ€"US border wars.Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically recasts the story...