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The taiga syndrome / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana.

ISBN: 0997366672
ISBN: 9780997366679
Physical Description: 121 pages ; 18 cm
Edition: First English-language edition.
Publisher: St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, a publishing project, 2018.

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- (author.). Levine, Suzanne Jill, (translator.). Kana, Aviva, (translator.).

Summary:

"A fairy tale run amok, THE TAIGA SYNDROME follows an unnamed female 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, 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."--Amazon.com.