The Taiga Syndrome

Fairy tale meets detective drama in this David Lynch-like novel by a writer Jonathan Lethem calls “one of Mexico’s greatest . . . we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.”

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down–that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation betrays both sense and one’s senses. Tales of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective’s quest into a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of Capitalism–accumulation and expulsion, corruption and cruelty–though the lessons of her journey are more experiential than moral: that just as love can fly away, sometimes unloving flies away as well. That sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.

Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: 10/01/2018
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780997366679
Language: English