At the Very Least We Should Know Your Name

TOWARD THE MIDDLE of Now I Surrender, the 2018 novel by Álvaro Enrigue newly translated by Natasha Wimmer, US Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood comes across hoofprints his tracker says belong to another officer, General James Parker. Parker is on the same mission as Gatewood: to track down and either capture or kill the famed Chiricahua warrior Geronimo. Gatewood is unconvinced. “I tell you it can’t be Parker,” he says, “those aren’t the hoofprints of a horse carrying a fat man.”