Name: The Taiga Syndrome
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Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
ISBN: 9780997366679

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cristina Rivera Garza

Translated by

Suzanne Jill Levine

Aviva Kana

Publisher

Dorothy a Publishing Project

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.8 x 14.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780997366679

Synopsis "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.

Cristina Rivera Garza

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Cristina Rivera Garza. Author. Translator. Critic. Her most recent books are Autobiography of Cotton (Literatura Random House, 2020) and Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country (The Feminist Press, 2020, translated by Sarah Booker, finalist for the NBCC Award). In 2020, she received the MacArthur Fellowship. Distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

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