The Taiga Syndrome

Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana

From Shelf: tales + tomes for the haunting season

From the author of The Iliac Crest, one of Mexico's best novelists, a Lynchian noir where an Ex-Detective tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-man's-land.

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.

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