The Taiga Syndrome
Author(s): Cristina Rivera Garza ; Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator); Aviva Kana (Translator)
Fiction. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana. 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.
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- : Dorothy, a publishing project
- : New York Review of Books
- : 0.01
- : 31 August 2018
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Special Fields
- : Cristina Rivera Garza ; Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator); Aviva Kana (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 128
- : Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana