A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that 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 serves to betray both sense and the senses. The stories of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective's quest. As she enters a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of capitalism - accumulation and expulsion, corruption and cruelty -the lessons of her journey unfold: that sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.
| ISBN: | 9781911508687 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2019 |
| Author: | Cristina Rivera Garza |
| Publisher: | And Other Stories |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Translated Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction Crime and Mystery |